While the Michigan Avenue address suggests sky-high prices, the small, beige changing areas are no-nonsense and not especially ritzy, highlighting that service is top priority. Unfortunately, we've experienced a few snafus with the spa's black hole of an appointment database…

Japanese pictures, prints and decorations are plastered on the walls, stemming from the owner's Japanese heritage (he moved to Chicago 20 years ago from Tokyo), making the otherwise barebone salon and spa a little more zen…

The newest Michael Anthony outpost is luxuriously calm despite its strip-mall location…

Do all those hippie candles and noxious incense sticks ease the stress or add to it? If you're like us, you get a massage because you want a massage—nothing more, nothing less. This unassuming new studio delivers on that promise and then some…

Laura Rose Boyle likes to begin sessions on a floor rug administering Breema bodywork (moves that gently stretch the muscles). This allows her to “listen” to your body and determine which areas need attention…

The address of this downtown salon and spa should be familiar to city spa-goers: It’s the former digs of Honey Child Spa. And while some of Honey’s staff have taken over the space, that’s pretty much the only aspect that has remained…