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A Night of Discerning Drinking
Chicago magazine writers, editors, and readers gathered last night at Bucktown hot spot Duchamp to celebrate cocktails and budding mixologists.
How to Merge an Airline and Other Business News
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.
Guinnessometrics: Saving Science and Statistics With Beer
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.
How an Illinois Prof's Paper on Wind Farms and Microclimate Became a Macro Story
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.
On the Market
Two Competing Views of Belmont Harbor
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...
Top Five Things to Do This Week
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
Chilapan to Open Second Location in Ravenswood
Holy Mole, Batman The two-year-old Logan Square Mexican spot Chilapan, known for its high-quality food and chill ambiance, will get a sibling in Ravenswood...
How Clint Eastwood's Patriotic Chrysler Ad Is Secretly Anti-Everything
"Halftime in America": anti-capitalist, anti-union, anti-Union, and worst of all, anti-Norse. Everyone hates the Super Bowl's most beloved ad.
Indiana: Right-to-Work Again
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.
"Gang Signs" in the Chicago City Sticker: A Rorschach Test
Does Chicago's new city sticker depict the signs and symbols of the Maniac Latin Disciples? Or is it an annunciation of the city's public safety officials? It's as much in the eye of the beholder as anything.
Housing Bulletin
The Mack Daddy of Foreclosure Flippers
The Tinley Park mansion that the former NBA star Antoine Walker lost in foreclosure when he declared bankruptcy in 2010 was left in sorry condition. Water stood waist-deep in the basement, murky goo filled the indoor pool, and at least 32 light fixtures were gone. But Jim McClelland Jr. and Eric Workman saw an opportunity...
The Case of the Missing 1.2 Million: This Is What Happens When Baby Boomers Retire
Thanks to Clint Eastwood and a positive jobs report, there's some very cautious optimism about the economy. But behind the scenes, there's a lot of math and yelling about who's employed, who's not, who wants a job, and who's done with working.
Chicago Italian Beef and Other Good Things
The best Italian beef in Chicago is right around the corner from where you are; an Italian beef gallery; why white bread comes from Rockford; 366 days of kindness; and more.
Lake Forest Boutique Celebrates 90 Years
Family of Fashion
In 1922, Margaret Baxter Foster opened The Lake Forest Shop (265 Market Square, Lake Forest; 847-234-0548, thelakeforestshop.com) to provide women with pants, skirts, tops, and other pieces to mix and match—a cutting edge concept at the time...
College Football Playoffs: Modest Good News From the Big 10
The conference makes a push to add a real, if small and short, playoff to the BCS system, as low TV ratings have the powers that be considering what fans have wanted for years.
How to Build a Better Bike Lane in Chicago
The organization that helped inspire the new Kinzie bike lane stops by Chicago for one of its "Cities for Cycling" roadshows, as the city attempts to expand its cycling infrastructure... and protect bikers and drivers from each other.
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