When Rainforest Cafe closed its high-profile River North restaurant more than a year ago, it wasn’t clear what would take its place. While the COVID-19 pandemic was tough on restaurants, the cannabis ...

A clouted cannabis partnership has dropped its controversial plan to open a store at the former Rainforest Cafe in downtown Chicago. State regulators had rejected a previous proposal by Progressive ...

River North residents voiced concerns Tuesday about a proposal to open a fourth recreational marijuana store in the neighborhood, at the former Rainforest Cafe site — but one area leader said previous ...

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For anyone who grew up in the ‘90s or early 2000s, it was an experience—the animatronic animals, the indoor thunderstorms, the feeling that you’d stepped into another world for an hour or two. While ...