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This September 21–27, Westfield Old Orchard is hosting its first-ever Foodie Week, welcoming guests to seven days of tasting menus, special offers and more across participating food and beverage retailers. With options ranging from Italian and Japanese to Mexican, burgers, coffee and sweets, Foodie Week offers a fun way to gather with friends and family, try something new and enjoy some of the dining options throughout Old Orchard. Participating restaurants include: Bar Sie

Broadway Company of Operation Mincemeat. Photo by Matt Crockett OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL will play Broadway In Chicago’s CIBC Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) for a limited two-week engagement, September 29 – October 11, on its North American leg of its World Tour. In OPERATION MINCEMEAT: A NEW MUSICAL, it’s 1943, and the Allied Forces are on the ropes. Luckily, they’ve got a trick up their sleeve. Well, not up their sleeve, per se, but rather inside the pocket of a stole

The Queens-born restaurant that earned Michelin Guide recommendations for nine consecutive years brings its celebrated soup dumplings and Shanghainese comfort food to Chicago’s River North Nan Xiang Xiao Long Bao, the Michelin-recommended New York restaurant celebrated for its handcrafted soup dumplings and authentic Shanghainese cuisine, will open its newest location in Chicago this summer at 33 W Ontario St in River North. Founded in Flushing, Queens in 2006, Nan Xiang Xi

Becky Robison is a writer and certified death doula living in Louisville, Kentucky. After her parents died, she created My Parents Are Dead: What Now?—a website documenting her journey through the legal, financial, and bureaucratic aftermath in order to help others do the same.