Cash for Condos in Chicago
LOVE ME (LEGAL) TENDER: 18 condos at 200 North Dearborn close in one month to all-cash buyers
Year: 2011
South Loop Row House a Two-Time Loser
Different owners come up short on sale of Prairie Avenue row house
Architect’s Lincoln Park Mansion Sells at Discount
GOING FOR BAROQUE: 22 rooms, 44 percent off its original asking price
Poker Expert James McManus on Las Vegas’s Best Restaurants, Hotels, and Attractions
ALL THAT GLITTERS: The author of Positively Fifth Street shows us how Vegas still thrills with plenty of bang for the buck.
Three Words: Tracy. Letts. Speedo.
On your agenda this week: Tracy Letts, pantsless … David Fray, smoldering … Bon Iver, cooing … plus, free stuff to do and Nicole Cabell’s weekend plans
Tequila Don Julio 70 Chicago Launch Party
November 14, 2011–Tequila Don Julio celebrated the launch of the Don Julio 70 Añejo Claro in Chicago.
Rod Blagojevich: The Reckoning, Day Two, Live on Twitter
Day one of Rod Blagojevich’s sentencing hearing went badly for the former governor, as Judge Zagel pushed back on many of his team’s arguments for leniency. Will he take the stand? Will he get something, anything, through the crease?
Rockford’s Only Frank Lloyd Wright House Up for Auction
In 1948, Kenneth Laurent, a young man from Rockford who had lost the use of both his legs during his World War II service, wrote to Frank Lloyd Wright to ask if the architect would design a home for him and his bride, Phyllis. The couple had $15,000 to spend from federal and state grants for paralyzed veterans. By 1952, when their new home was completed, they had spent about $31,000 to build the two-bedroom house…
Great Gifts VI
The last in our series of gift blogs by our staff…
The Blagojevich Leniency Defense in Five Tweets
Team Blago throws out a prevent defense in trying to get him the best deal possible, touching on his family, his tenuous grasp of legality, and his incompetence.