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Where is your favorite place to get your hair cut in Downers Grove? Maybe it's a salon, maybe it's a barber shop. Whatever you call it, we'd like to know where you go when it's …

Restaurant Reviews

Once upon a time I used to be a night person.  I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but somewhere over the years I converted to a morning person.  …

Beer geeks, you have a new home. Well, maybe not a home but, thanks to Lemon Tree Grocer, you have a night. Beginning last month, every Tuesday night…

Teddy’s Red Hots  is the sort of iconic Chicago-area establishment that the Saturday Night Live Superfans would approve:  lots of beef and “sassage…

I love beer. I like wine, but I love beer. Wine is the girl I met who worked behind the bar at Alumni Club back in the Summer of '95. She wore her …

Ah, the whirlwind life of the Downers Grove Patch correspondent, constantly being whisked away on a moment's notice to attend some swanky, …

Unless your name is Vito Andolini or Anthony Cesare or a similar variation on a character that appeared as an extra in The Godfather, chances are you…

Your wife really doesn't want to catch the game and split a pizza on date night. Not really. She might humor you once in a while because you're a …

At some point during the Chicago Blackhawks storybook run to Lord Stanley's cup last spring, I took a sip from my Magic Hat #9 Ale and glanced around…

Yes, the 2Toots Train Whistle Grill has a train. It's a black, electric Lionel locomotive that chugs along the lunch counter and pulls "boxcar" diner…