And that’s a wrap people. Well, almost. Saturday marks the endgame scene for 2011. If you’re up for a night imbibing in the Viagra Triangle environs, heck, go for it. Our strategy? Get out of Dodge. Where to go? The Kingsley House Bed and Breakfast Inn in Fennville, Michigan, where the closest you’ll get to a mosh pit of beverage-fortified partiers marauding through a balloon drop is watching shooting stars from the inn’s wraparound front porch…
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Jessica from Streeterville asks for a forecast of the 2012 Real Estate Market.
The top story of February was probably the biggest yet least surprising story of 2011: a former Daley fundraiser officially becomes Da Mare-elect, and faces a lot of problems left over from Da Mare.
A timelapse of (almost all of) the 2011 homicides in Chicago, mapped onto the city grid.
’Twas the Wednesday before Christmas, when all through six bars, everybody was drinking, and being rock stars…
The very end of January brought an epic snowstorm, two of the year’s best photographs, and memories of the blizzard that ended Michael Bilandic’s hold on the mayor’s office.
A highlight reel of the Bulls’ star and reigning MVP shows his quickness, his court vision, and the ups that allow him to operate above the rim.
List Price: $1,699,500
Sale Price: $1,550,000
The Property: A now-retired executive who joined the banking superstar Jamie Dimon in Chicago has now followed his old boss’s lead in another way: selling his home at about half what he’d been asking for it…
If you’ve ever shopped for a home-automation system, you know that it can feel like being in a cheap mattress or appliance store…
When Charles Dickens toured America for the last time, he gave Chicago the cold shoulder, as well as his widowed Chicago sister-and-law. The local press attacked him as a Scrooge and a hypocrite, but the real story was a sad and complex one closer to Bleak House than A Christmas Carol.
