List Price: $890,000
Sale Price: $840,000
The Property: This substantial Victorian, built in 1906 for a man whose family construction business developed large swaths of homes in Oak Park and the Far West Side of Chicago, sold in just 15 days this May…
We just heard that Kara Mann is closing her Chicago showroom after four years to focus on the design side of her business…
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month
The Emanuel administration presents a bleak picture of the city budget, as sacrifice and competition for city services appear to be in our future. But one of the biggest factors in the city’s expenses, employee health care, is the victim of greater national trends… and as a result, a tremendously difficult problem.
Jeff Ruby thinks that the Thai experience at Next is a party, but for Penny Pollack, it was a case of too much information, as servers layered on the historical and cultural information thicker than the curry.
Edited by Gina Bazer Do you love the eggshell-like ceramic vessel in the living room shown above (from our March/April 2011 issue) as much as we do? We thought so. Interested in a lower-cost alternative? We found one on I.D. Chicago’s website. These papier-mâché nesting bowls by Roost have that rare quality of looking both … Read more
The front man for Chicago’s legendary C&W bar band, “the patron saints of Chicago’s insurgent country movement,” passes away at 80. Plus: ten picks to get caught up on the alt-country that came in their wake.
With one Illinois governor in prison and another waiting to go, the current gov, Pat Quinn, seems remarkably tone deaf to charges that he is rewarding his political benefactors with cushy board jobs. His appointment on Wednesday of 41-year-old attorney Jennifer Burke—daughter of Alderman Ed Burke, next to Rahm the biggest foot in city politics—to the Illinois Pollution Control Board seems utterly over the top, even reckless…
Friends don’t let friends pass on the doughnuts @ Ethyl’s Beer & Wine Dive.
The walleye sandwich @ Ethyl’s Beer & Wine Dive was tasty but too much shredded stuff got in the way.
