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Eat. Watch. Do. Thursday, July 17, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It’s Thursday, Chicago. This week, we take a bite out of the mighty history of the gyro in Chicago, and how Greek restaurants are paying tribute to the dish as its popularity wanes. Food critic Louisa Kung Liu Chu awards three stars to Mahari in Hyde Park, where chef Rahim Muhammad is highlighting food from across the African diaspora. Plus, take the family to Brookfield Zoo Chicago this summer, where a new primate habitat features rescued endangered spider monkeys and bachelor gorillas. Enjoy the weekend, we’ll see you back here next week. — Lauryn Azu, deputy editor | | | | The three-acre, $66 million Tropical Forests habitat opened Friday after more than two years of construction. | | | | | Fifty years ago, Grecian Delights and Kronos Foods began mass-producing the world’s first hydraulically pressed gyro cones, which allowed for a more consistent and easier-to-sell product. | | | | | Get your maps out, order your two-drink minimum and chart a course with us across these new homes for improv and stand-up comedy. | | | | | Mahari brings not just the vibrant cuisines of the African diaspora to Chicago, but chefs tracing their cultures and blazing their own paths. | | | | | Eric Bana (and his forearms) take center stage as a rugged, no-nonsense cop whose beat is a national park. | | | | | The pizza will be available for 30 days (or while supplies last) at Lou Malnati’s full-service restaurants in the Chicagoland area, Milwaukee and Arizona. | | | | | In the BritBox series, detectives analyzing surveillance footage recruit the help of a deaf woman who can read lips. | | | | | Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal and Emma Stone take on early 2020 pandemic crises of every sort in Ari Aster’s “Eddington.” | | | | | “Beauty and the Beast” sparked a revolution in bringing family audiences back to Broadway. And the success of the show changed the face of the Disney organization. | | | |
