Chicago Winter Markets: One Goes North, One's New, One Returns
Indoor Market Scene Gains Three for 2024-25
Exciting news for Chicago's winter farmers market fans: There are three new choices to add to your winter local food shopping:
* South Loop Farmers Market is adding a North Side winter market at Water Tower Place.
* Ravinia Farmers Market- Illinois goes downtown in suburban Highland Park to start its new winter market.
* Logan Square Farmers Market gets back into the winter market game after a two-week hiatus.
Get the scoop on the Local Food Forum website.
Pumpkin Up: Wild Onion Market Held Its Harvest Festival
Wild Onion Market, the recently opened food co-op in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood, had some fun with its first Harvest Festival on Saturday. The event also subtly underscored an important point for local food fans.
For those with access to the handful of co-ops currently open in the Chicago region, these markets provide access to locally produced food during the long stretch when our outdoor farmers markets are closed ā along with many other better-for-people, better-for-the-planet grocery items.
Read more about it on the Local Food Forum website.
Fall Colors Add Beauty to Serenity of Chicago's Graceland Cemetery
I love my adopted hometown of Chicago, and occasionally Local Food Forum goes a bit off-topic so I can point out some of the things that makes this city special.
One of these, Graceland Cemetery, is located a mile and a half from where we live in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood and a half-mile north of Wrigley Field, the area's most famous location.
Barb and I paid a Sunday visit because the cemetery, along with being the resting place of many of the city's most historic figures, is also an arboretum. The fall colors are unusually brilliant here this year, as you'll see in the photos in this article.
While there, we paid respects to an architect, a retailing pioneer and the beloved baseball player known as Mr. Cub, all of whom left a legacy to Chicago life. Take a break and check out the story, with lots of pretty pictures.