On Valentine’s Day, Penny’s heart is in all the right places: Listen to Chicago’s dining editor Penny Pollack her Valentine’s Day restaurants on Dean Richards’ Sunday Morning show this Sunday, 2/12, at 12:10pm on WGN Radio 720.
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Alice Clement was an early feminist, foe to mashers, friend of lost girls, movie producer (and star)... and Chicago's first female detective. Plus: Cora Strayer and Kate Warne, early female gumshoes of the private sector.
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The administration's health policy, in combination with decade-old EEOC rules, has created a media firestorm about religious freedom, with pundits calling it the end of Obama's chances in 2012. In the real world, it will probably provide a modest electoral boost.
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Chicago magazine writers, editors, and readers gathered last night at Bucktown hot spot Duchamp to celebrate cocktails and budding mixologists.
by Elizabeth Riley |
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Just making the coffee at the world's largest carrier takes a whole beverage committee; Mayor Emanuel on the long-delayed O'Hare express; the ethics of shoppping; and more.
by Whet Moser |
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A Roosevelt University economist looks into the scientific and statistical legacy of W.S. Gosset, aka "Student," Guinness's legendary Oxford-educated brewmaster and scientific-paradigm-shifter.
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The Publican and Moto won’t be the only ones serving up rabbit this weekend over on Fulton Street, my friends
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The legendary designer Karim Rashid has created an affordable line of modern furniture for BoConcept...
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UIUC's Somnath Baidya Roy wrote a 2010 paper on how wind farms effect nearby surface temperatures. In 2012, it got picked up and used as a cudgel in the climate-change wars.
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List Price (8th floor): $375,000
List Price (7th floor): $300,000
The Properties: Even among the many stately dowagers that surround it, 3314 North Lake Shore Drive stands out with its Beaux Arts façade, which features paired columns of bay windows that capture views out over Belmont Harbor...
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On your agenda: Songs to set the V-Day mood … Folkie fellowship at the University of Chicago … Photographs that make art of table scraps … plus, what South Side native and musical theatre star E. Faye Butler is doing this weekend
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GOLDEN GATES: The rising star, whose work has been shown at the Whitney and LA’s MOCA, talks about the West Side church that gave him his fashion, and picks 10 of his favorite things
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So cozy looking, sorry to say, the Lyonnaise potatoes @ Rustic House need work. Mushy and bland instead of crispy and flavorful.
RUSTIC HOUSE: 1967 N HALSTED; 773-929-3227
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Such serious grill marks on the salmon @ Rustic House, I thought the fish would be dry. Just the opposite.
RUSTIC HOUSE: 1967 N HALSTED; 773-929-3227
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@pennypollack: Wednesday nights @ Rustic House, Maple Leaf duck is the rotisserie special. Good to know.
RUSTIC HOUSE: 1967 N HALSTED; 773-929-3227
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"Halftime in America": anti-capitalist, anti-union, anti-Union, and worst of all, anti-Norse. Everyone hates the Super Bowl's most beloved ad.
by Whet Moser |
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Our Rust Belt neighbors are a beachhead for right-to-work laws in the industrial Midwest. But it's happened before, when the pols and capitalists who birthed the modern conservative movement passed a similar law that lasted for nine years.
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OBAMALAND REDUX: A look at new faces in new places as the president gears up for November
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A ROOM WITH A BREW: A cozy art-gallery-slash-pub finds a home in a new community art center
by Claudine Isé |
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