The grass is heavy with rain from an early morning shower as two girls push their bicycle up the slope of Cricket Hill. At the top, 9-year-old Lena Rush sits down to squeeze water out of her shoes ...

MacFarland “Mac” Cates Jr. has fond memories of growing up at Cricket Hill — a 1930s French country home with triple-hung windows, large open spaces and thought to be the first in the state with air ...

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Cricket Hill is an archetypal hill, the most perfect hill in Chicago. It’s between Montrose Avenue Beach and Lake Shore Drive, overlooking Montrose Harbor. It was once a cricket field; now it’s ...

FAIRFIELD – Rick Reed still remembers brewing his first – and still favorite – beer at his 15-barrel brewhouse. It was 2001, and he was making what would become a Cricket Hill staple, the East Coast ...

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Cricket Hill Brewery has a trio of tripels on the horizon for its October beer offerings. A tripel is essentially a strong pale ale. Cricket Hill will pay homage to the tripel on Oct. 4 through 7 ...