The Geography of Money

A color-coded look at the distribution of median household income across Chicago's neighborhoods and suburbs.

The Money Makers

Ten Chicago entrepreneurs who have recently found success talk about how they did it.

Margaret Littman

The Richest Chicagoans of All Time

How do today’s billionaires and multimillionaires compare with yesterday’s? We put them through an inflation-equalizing machine to get the answer.

Dennis Rodkin

What Financial Pros Know (That You May Not)

We asked money experts for their best (free) advice on making money grow. A 16-point primer.

Shane Tritsch

The Annotated Forbes 400

A closer look at the 19 Chicagoans on Forbes magazine’s annual list of the country’s richest people.

David Bernstein

Getting By

In some ways, the three families profiled here—one well off, one middle class, one working poor—couldn’t be more different. In income, in possessions, in prospects, they stand on separate...

Bryan Smith

Curtain Call

When the architect Rodrigo del Canto built a new house in Old Town, he linked two transparent towers and let sun-yellow curtains fly—magical realism in motion

Christine Newman

Who Makes What

How much money does Barack Obama make as a U.S. senator? Find out salary information about him and others in various fields.

Gretchen Wahl, Graham Meyer, Kate Rockwood, Nadine Kenney, Brigid Sweeney, Lisa O’Keefe, Brittney Blair, and Benjamin Fritz

Table of Contents

High Steaks

In Chicago and New York, the top steak houses serve prime aged meat. How different can they be? You’d be surprised.

Dennis Ray Wheaton

Dogma

What does your dog say about you?

Jeff Ruby

Old Glory

Once a sumptuous playground for the city's elite, the South Shore Country Club has been reinvented as a community cultural center—but only after a long, hard battle saved this 100-year-old...

Sarah Downey

Sustained

Sarah Preston

Writers on the Record - Jay McInerney

Victoria Lautman chats with the novelist about his new work, The Good Life.

Wall Power

Artist Casey Gunschel gives contemporary wallpaper a much-needed makeover

Meghan McEwen

The Break Outs

Four local artists whose work was tapped for the movie The Break Up.

Meghan McEwen

Piano Player

Bridge-bashing with the Italian architect Renzo Piano

New Release

The new memoir Full Swing: Hits, Runs and Errors in a Writer's Life.

Lauren Murrow

Mod Life

With mirrors from Hollywood's golden age and pop-era lamps, this stylish modern mecca blows the dust off the concept of an “antique mart.”

Stacy Wallace-Albert

Long Division

Four decades after it first appeared, Studs Terkel's Division Street: America is being republished. The vigorous 93-year-old shares why the book still matters.

Christine Newman

Laugh Track

What's so funny about Stephen Colbert? The Chicago comedians who make up half his writing team

Steve Fifer

Destination: Bridgeport

There is more to this neighborhood than baseball.

Lauren Murrow

Angels Off Off Loop

Chicago magazine's Cassie Walker chronicled the process of staging Angels in America—a process in six scenes.

Is Separate Better?

The heir of a high-profile Chicago family, Tim King has devoted most of his professional life to educating less fortunate young black men. Now he's betting on the promise of a new all-male high...

Kevin McKeough

Your Best Offer

After touring an Old Town penthouse with Deal Estate, three real-estate agents made hypothetical bids on the home

Dennis Rodkin

There's No Place Like Tome

High volume of sales as buyers book title to Library Tower condos

Dennis Rodkin

5 Questions - Jason Miller

Dining Tidbits

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