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The Art of the 3-Pointer (Ben Gordon-style)

The Art of the 3-Pointer (Ben Gordon-style)

Love Hurts…Your Wallet

How to: Make an Oscar

How to: Make an Oscar

This year, as it has every year since 1983, the Northwest Side trophy maker R.S. Owens & Company will provide the golde Oscar statuettes for Academy Award winners. Current R.S. Owens president...

The Annotated: Baha'i Temple

The Annotated: Baha’i Temple

The Ups and Downs

Meet the Press

Two Blocks of Bling

Two Blocks of Bling

For more than a century, the Jewelers Row district has been a hard-hustling center of lapidary commerce. The city designated the area, along Wabash Avenue between Washington and Monroe streets, a...

Ka-ching in the Season

Ka-ching in the Season

If the holidays seem to take a bigger bite out of your budget every year, it’s not your imagination. The National Retail Federation estimates that Americans will spend a grand total of $457.4...

Sacred Chicago

Sacred Chicago

With a past steeped in medieval counterfeits and grave robbing, relics have been saddled with a bad rap almost as long as saints have been canonized. But the tradition itself predates Christianity;...

A Run for the Money

A Run for the Money

So far, as of June 30th—the end of the last filing period before this issue went to press—Illinois candidates had raised about $95 million in this election cycle. But where does all the money...