Chicago's Best Cheap Eats

CHICAGO, Oct. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The November issue of Chicago magazine highlights 30 restaurants where diners can enjoy a memorable meal for as little as $5 in its Cheap Eats cover story. These are no fast-food or take-out spots. To make the list, a restaurant had to be a sit-down establishment with a wait staff, serve dinner until at least 7 p.m. and offer an amazing meal for no more than $23 per person. Plus: The story gives the skinny on the best budget "street foods," eight standout renditions of the Chicago-style hot dog, and where the city's top chefs chow down on the cheap.

On newsstands Thursday, this issue also features the complete list of all 191 local restaurants recommended by Chicago's dining critics. This highly anticipated rundown appears in print only twice a year. It's organized by location—downtown, north, south, west, and suburban—and features a star rating system.

Is investing in local stocks a wise choice? Apparently so, based on research by veteran financial reporter Carolyn Bidga for her November investing feature Chicago Bulls. Over the past five years, total annualized returns of Chicago-area large-cap stocks have outperformed the Standard & Poor's national average by 2.5 percentage points. Bigda looks into the prospects of all 19 locally based big public companies to suggest nine stocks to buy right now and three to dump.

Other stories from the November issue include:

• Jose Lopez's Last Stand – Northwest-side neighborhood Humboldt Park, one of Chicago's largest Puerto Rican enclaves, is quickly becoming a hot market for real estate. Find out why longtime community leader Jose Lopez wants to put an end to that and stop gentrification in its tracks.
• New Music, More Fun – New music, a.k.a. classical contemporary, has long been considered the egghead cousin of traditional classic music. But that reputation, at least in Chicago, is being reinvented, thanks to a new generations of musicians who take a looser, more laid-back approach to their performances, choosing bars and eclectic showmanship over concert halls and stiff recitals.
• Chicago at Work – From the heights of the city's tallest towers to the depths of the Shedd Aquarium's wild-reef tank, take a peek at six fascinating, quintessential Chicago jobs in a special 12-page photo portfolio.

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