Happy birthday to us! Time Out Chicago launched its print edition on March 3, 2005, with Redmoon Theater on its cover and a baby-faced Jens Lekman in its pages. Since then, Time Out Chicago has gone through some big changes, including switching to an all-digital format in 2013, and Chicago has transformed right along with it. Can you even remember a time before Brendan Sodikoff ruled the Chicago restaurant scene? Or when Lollapalooza was in its first year? Or when smoking was still allowed in Chicago bars? Jump in the not-so-way-back time machine with us and reminisce about the past decade.
A decade of Chicago culture
Restaurants
Where are they now? Chicago chefs over the past decade
Shopping
10 fashion trends popular in 2005
Music
Ranking every Lollapalooza lineup from 2005 to today
In memoriam: things we've lost since 2005
What you were listening to, watching and gossiping about in 2005
The slang we used in 2005
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