Chicago Reader

Gone but not frog-otten

I watch a TikTok where the Rainforest Cafe frog sits on a trailer in a parking lot, dismantled. When I fall asleep, I dream I have adopted the frog. I am trying to convince my roommate we have the ...
Chicago Tribune

Column: The giant green frog from Chicago’s Rainforest Cafe must be preserved. Maybe it can help fight coronavirus?

Chicago is on the brink of losing a historic landmark: The giant green frog that for years has stood like a silent amphibian sentry over the doors of the city’s Rainforest Cafe, a classic meeting spot ...
Herald & Review

Say goodbye to the giant green frog. Chicago’s Rainforest Cafe is closing for good ahead of schedule.

The giant green frog peering down at traffic from the top of Chicago’s Rainforest Cafe may not have much more time on his perch. The kid-friendly restaurant in the Near North neighborhood closed ...
Chicago Tribune

Woodfield Mall’s Rainforest Cafe will close Jan. 1. That giant frog in Chicago shouldn’t get too comfy either, its landlord says.

The Rainforest Cafe at Woodfield Mall is closing Jan. 1 and the chain’s Chicago location, marked by a giant green frog, could be endangered in a couple of years. The restaurant at Schaumburg’s ...

Owner of former Chicago Rainforest Café building faces foreclosure lawsuit

The former landlord of the now-long-shuttered Rainforest Café in River North is now facing a $9.3 million foreclosure lawsuit.
The Daily Dot

“My happy place as a kid”: Woman’s nostalgic hobby is restoring old Rainforest Cafe furniture

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 ...