It looks like a retro diner, or a small-town Texas tavern out of a Taylor Sheridan TV show. But the prices are retro, too.

We are losing more than pot roast cupcakes, bacon fat popcorn and duck carnitas tacos with the closure of three notable restaurants in Chicago.

Sadly, Professor Stein no longer cycles over a tightrope, but you can still glimpse him perched over the food hall, balancing two steins of beer and surveying passersby with his monocle. Whale mural ...