RELATED STORY: SPRING FASHION—SULTRY SEVENTIES STYLE » Chicago’s fashion director Stacey Jones and senior fashion editor Stephanie Soong jetted to the bewitching, cobblestoned streets of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the March feature Viva la Vida, our spring ode to sultry seventies style. Despite a torrential downpour and a feral cat attack, the dynamic … Read more
VIVA LA VIDA: Live the life with sultry seventies-inspired looks and exotic prints infused with a touch of tropicalia
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The Property: In 1891, just three years after founding the company that would grow into the pharmaceutical giant Abbott Labs, Wallace Abbott built this 15-room house in what was then the Chicago suburb Ravenwsood…
As public educational reform has become a hot topic via elections, protests, and even the cineplex, a similar movement is happening with the food served at public schools. Both present similar difficulties.
A look at rumored candidates to run CPS: two reform stars (Baltimore’s Andres Alonso and Charlotte’s Peter Gorman), a career superintendent (Maryland’s Jerry Weast), a young up-and-comer (NYC’s John White), and a member of Emanuel’s transition team (Timothy Knowles)
HEAD CASE: The illustrator pulls back the curtain on his work in a new book.
Regardless of age or country of birth, everyone was Irish last night—grandpas, babies, hipsters, even Mayor-elect Emanuel—at the Irish American Heritage Center’s St. Patrick’s Day bash…
The New Trier grad can be spotted on high-fashion street-style blogs and the world’s major runways.
Our fashion director, Stacey Jones, scoured the runways of Paris and New York for ten items that every Chicago woman must have for her spring wardrobe. Without further ado, meet your necessities.
LIGHTNING STRIKES: The Chicago-based fashion house projects femininity and intellect in its ready-to-wear designs for women
