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Whenever I come across a Chicagoan selling stuff I love on Etsy, I get a little pang of excitement. Call it Chicago pride…
Year: 2011
Chicago to Soften Its Purgatorial Orange Glow With White CMH Street Lights
The city uses stimulus money to replace some of its high-pressure sodium street lights with white, “suburban” ceramic metal halide ones.
Where to Go This Weekend: New Buffalo, Michigan
It’s been close to 30 years since New Buffalo, Michigan’s Ship and Shore Festival got its start as an arts-and-crafts fair. Now it’s a three-day event that showcases an array of Midwestern artists and musicians. It also features one of the region’s most unique parades: a procession along the shore of Lake Michigan of boats, yachts, and other floating vehicles decked out in lights…
Lollapalooza 2011: Best and Worst of the Festival
Say what you will about Lollapalooza—it’s too mainstream, it’s too hot, it’s too commercial, it’s too crowded—but, overall, it’s a pretty great show. Bands that get by on good hair and a hit at other fests fall flat when stacked up against plain talent—regardless of whether it’s in or out (or in again for the third or fourth time—this being Lolla’s 20th anniversary). It would be an inhuman task to take it all in, but several acts…
S&P Downgrade Vs the Market, By the Headlines and the Numbers
Standard & Poor’s downgrades U.S. debt… which sees no shortage of buyers as the market goes through one of its worst days in years, with the Dow down over 600 points. What’s going on?
Lollapalooza 2011
Our complete coverage of the fest, including our best/worst list, band photos, style shots, cutest couples, and more
OK Go at Debonair Social Club’s Lollapalooza Preparty
The dancing. Oh, the dancing! OK Go, that purveyor of just-try-to-sit-still viral videos, got the crowd on its feet and sweaty at Debonair Social Club’s Lollapalooza preparty Thursday night, when two members of the formerly Chicago-based band took over DJ duties right around midnight—just 24 hours and change after playing Obama’s 50th birthday bash at the Aragon…
The Latino Baby Boom, in Chicago and the U.S.
A surge in Latino births produced a tremendous shift in the demographics of Chicago toddlers, portending substantial policy and political changes to come.
Sun-Times Investor Moves from Park Newberry Condo to Elysian Penthouse
List Price: $2.25 million
Sale Price: $1.95 million
The Property: Robert Parrillo, a Chicago lawyer who was part of the investor team that in 2009 rescued the Chicago Sun-Times from bankruptcy, has sold a four-bedroom condo at the Park Newberry and is moving to the highest residential floor of the luxe Elysian…
Chicago-Made Lamps
Local artisan Mike Jones makes these cool lamps for the guy-oriented shop Isle of Man. Sometimes he fixes old lamps, sometimes he uses discarded objects (like old helmets) to make “new” fixtures…