Prairie Avenue Survivor Gets a New Champion
List Price: $599,000
Sale Price: $450,000
The Property: The Wood-Maxey-Boyd house, a Prairie Avenue treasure from 1885, has a new owner—only its third…
Year: 2011
18th Annual Celebration of Home & Garden
June 11, 2011 — Heartland Alliance held the 18th annual Celebration of Home & Garden in Harbor Country, Michigan. Over 850 guests came out to enjoy the day and tour magnificent and unique properties. This year, for the first time, guests enjoyed an al fresco lunch in the elegant pastoral setting of Burscott Park, a private estate in New Troy, Michigan. Exquisitely prepared, locally grown food, and hand-crafted local wines were served. Guests wandered through gardens and were serenaded by a strolling violinist.
The 18th Annual Celebration of Home & Garden benefitted the work of Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, an organization that helps people who are threatened by poverty or danger to improve their lives and realize their human rights.
Visit www.homeandgardentour.com for more information.
Study: It's Harder to Get Medical Care If You're a Kid on Medicaid in Chicago
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that children on Medicare and SCHIP face longer waits and more rejections for medical care.
Your DVR Is an Energy Hog
File under things that I knew somewhere deep in my head but probably just didn’t want to think about: DVRs consume an enormous amount of electricity.
Mick De Giulio’s Sink for Kallista
While at the Mart for NeoCon, I stopped in to see what was new at the Kohler Store…
Chicago Teacher Salaries: The Long View
The Board of Education rejected Chicago teachers’ “automatic” four-percent raise, portending a showdown between the Chicago Teachers Union and the mayor, or at least more tension. Setting aside whether teachers are “overpaid” or “underpaid,” let’s take a look at how they’ve been historically paid.
Birdhouses, Books, Vino, and More
The annual Chicago House birdhouse auction and fund-raising event is branching out this year to include traditional, modern, and contemporary artwork of a non-avian nature, in addition to the dozens of creative birdhouses hatched by local designers, artists, and architects…
Bryan Smith: New Evidence in Pacaccio Murder Case
Bryan Smith visited the set of CLTV and WGN Evening News on Wednesday to discuss new evidence in the Pacaccio Murder Case.
Guerrilla Truck Show
For the seventh year, Morlen Sinoway, patron saint of emerging artists and designers, staged his Guerrilla Furniture and Art Truck show…
Minding a Hinsdale Manor—and Former Groupon Chief Lists His Kenwood Home
List Price: $6.72 million
The Property: The blocks south and southeast of Hinsdale’s downtown are replete with imposing homes of various eras and styles. Set among them is this new English manor, whose brick and timber Tudor façade could pass for a much older home…