The New City Council: Not Quite Ready for Prime Time?
Mayor Emanuel scores a unanimous council victory on his first day in office. A new rubber-stamp council? Or just opening-day jitters? Plus: City Council guides.
Year: 2011
Orland Park’s Home on the Range
List Price: $2.5 million
The Property: Now this is a ranch house. The Orland Park residence is infused with the character and materials of the American West, from its log-framed entry to the forest of timber beams and the huge stone chimney in the great room…
The Best of ICFF
This clever, foldable dining table was developed by Legato Studio in New York…
Chicago Sports Shorts
An appreciation of Juan Pierre’s neoclassical style; the Cubs give up seven runs in a shutout; LeBron James has a cold; a new site about long-form sports journalism.
Selection from Cupcakes for Courage
There are five flavors a day @CourageousCakes. Here are the ones we snagged: vanilla (the one with the candy lavender star), red velvet, black & white, strawberry, carrot. CUPCAKES FOR COURAGE CUPCAKE TRUCK: 773-236-7201; www.cupcakesforcourage.com
Vanilla on Vanilla Cupcake from Cupcakes for Courage
Vanilla on vanilla @CourageousCakes got mixed reviews—from “too vanilla-y” to “it really tastes like vanilla bean.” CUPCAKES FOR COURAGE CUPCAKE TRUCK: 773-236-7201; www.cupcakesforcourage.com
Strawberry Cupcake from Cupcakes for Courage
@pennypollack: We can barely keep up w/food trucks, especially cupcakers, but the strawberry chub @CourageousCakes was moist as can be. CUPCAKES FOR COURAGE CUPCAKE TRUCK: 773-236-7201; www.cupcakesforcourage.com
Why I Love Twitter
The New York Times’s Bill Keller comes to bury Twitter, not to praise it. I’ve come to lift his fail-whale of an essay to the skies, so that the medium can be appreciated for what it is, (virtually) here and now.
Custom House Tavern’s Owners to Open Two New Restaurants
Double Boiler
Sue Kim-Drohomyrecky and Peter Drohomyrecky, who own Custom House Tavern in the South Loop, announced their plans to open two restaurants in the Lakeshore East area…
Top-Floor Views from Available Aqua Condos
Since Jeanne Gang’s Aqua was completed in 2009, views of the tower have landed in countless tourists’ scrapbooks and Facebook posts. But views from Aqua can be pretty sweet, too, as you will see in the video and pictures I shot recently from two condos for sale on the tower’s top residential floors…