Who would have thought that 1997’s “Anaconda,” in which Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube and Jon Voight run from a giant snake in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest, would leave a significant enough ...

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The former landlord of the now-long-shuttered Rainforest Café in River North is now facing a $9.3 million foreclosure lawsuit. According to court documents, the lawsuit alleges the building's owner ...

The Rainforest Cafe’s former landlord is facing a $9.3 million foreclosure suit over the River North property. A venture of lender Alecko Capital filed today to foreclose on the 22,000-square-foot ...

Two of Chicago’s more colorful real estate figures are squaring off in court over the former Rainforest Cafe site in River North. Alecko Lending, led by founder Alexander Pissios, filed a foreclosure ...

Coming soon: The team behind Harvard Square tiki lair Wusong Road has a new Latin American restaurant in the works at the CambridgeSide mall (100 Cambridgeside Place), says owner Jason Doo. “We’re ...

In the protected, undisturbed limestone forests of central Vietnam, a “secretive” creature emerged at nightfall. In a scene framed by the opening of a karst cave, the 20-inch black and cream-colored ...

In 1998, the US "Rainforest" Cafe opened its first restaurant in Hong Kong, featuring immersive rainforest decor, mechanical animals, and thunderstorm effects. The restaurant closed in 2003. A man ...

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 ...