Chicago Home + Garden will be at the opening day (Saturday, May 23) of the Randolph Street Market with decorator Laura Soskin, who will pull together a fab room furnished with her favorite finds at the Market that day—and she will do so over the course of several hours! The room will be on display Saturday only on the second floor stage inside the Hall. All items in the room will be for sale (last year, when our stylist Barri Leiner pulled of the same feat, the items sold right off the set)! Look for behind-the-scenes coverage on our blog and a peek at the final product in our September/October issue.

—Gina Bazer

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Chicago Home + Garden will be at the opening day (Saturday, May 23) of the Randolph Street Market with decorator Laura Soskin, who will pull together a fab room furnished with her favorite finds at the Market that day—and she will do so over the course of several hours! The room will be on display Saturday only on the second floor stage inside the Hall. All items in the room will be for sale (last year, when our stylist Barri Leiner pulled of the same feat, the items sold right off the set)! Look for behind-the-scenes coverage on our blog and a peek at the final product in our September/October issue.

—Gina Bazer

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Chicago Home + Garden will be at the opening day (Saturday, May 23) of the Randolph Street Market with decorator Laura Soskin, who will pull together a fab room furnished with her favorite finds at the Market that day—and she will do so over the course of several hours! The room will be on display Saturday only on the second floor stage inside the Hall. All items in the room will be for sale (last year, when our stylist Barri Leiner pulled of the same feat, the items sold right off the set)! Look for behind-the-scenes coverage on our blog and a peek at the final product in our September/October issue.

—Gina Bazer

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To Market with Decorator Laura Soskin!

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Chicago Home + Garden will be at the opening day (Saturday, May 23) of the Randolph Street Market with decorator Laura Soskin, who will pull together a fab room furnished with her favorite finds at the Market that day—and she will do so over the course of several hours! The room will be on display Saturday only on the second floor stage inside the Hall. All items in the room will be for sale (last year, when our stylist Barri Leiner pulled of the same feat, the items sold right off the set)! Look for behind-the-scenes coverage on our blog and a peek at the final product in our September/October issue.

—Gina Bazer

Price Friendly Boutique in Boystown

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Similar Style, Lower Prices
Marc Engel moved to Chicago in 1996 and within weeks of his arrival open Chasalla (106 E. Oak St.; 312-640-1940), a high-end designer boutique. Upon its opening, Engel still wanted to bring a second, trendy shop to a busier Chicago neighborhood. Staying true to his word, the German native opened CRAM Fashion (3331 N. Broadway St.; 773-477-1737) in Boystown earlier this month. While the boutique carries some of…

Buchanan Arrives!

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Looking for some fun this weekend? Head to Buchanan, Michigan, just west of Three Oaks and about an hour-and-a-half drive, where several businesses are opening their storefronts to serve wine and nibbles to celebrate the birth of a revitalized downtown there. Highlights are antiques shops owned by a couple of Chicagoans: Alan Robandt and Thomas Jolly. See our story on the two here. The Buchanan Museum of Fine Art is celebrating its grand opening, too. The party takes place from 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday, May 23, on Front Street.

—JAN PARR

The Lost Boy

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In 1908, Chicago’s chief of police shot to death a Russian-born Jewish immigrant who had come to the chief’s Lincoln Park home. One hundred years later, Aleksandar Hemon, another European who has made Chicago his home, used that tale as a springboard for his acclaimed novel The Lazarus Project. Hemon followed in the path of several historians who had already taken on that same story—yet despite those combined investigations, the circumstances behind the immigrant’s death remain a mystery

The Rockhouse

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Among the selling points listed in the press release for the new rock ’n’ roll bar The Rockhouse, which opened Friday in the old Déjà Vu space, was the staff’s multitude of piercings and tattoos—so many, in fact, “visitors would never know they were in Lincoln Park.” As for us, we’ve seen more small-of-back tats in greater LP than we care to count—not to mention neighborhood rock bars, including the also-newbies Amp and Faith & Whiskey—but we’ll let you be the judge…