Wine Bar and Market Bread & Wine Slated for December in Irving Park
& How
When their kids were on a play date, Lisa Fosler Kelly and Jennifer Wisniewski discovered they shared the dream of opening a wine bar…
Year: 2011
A Guide to Ghent, Belgium
BEYOND BRUSSELS: Forget the capital or overtouristy Bruges—Ghent is the place Belgians really want to live, according to our guides, Chicagoans Don Feinberg and Wendy Littlefield
Bill Savage, Writer and Editor
Dmitry Samarov met his future editor when the Northwestern prof bought one of the artist’s paintings in 2001. Here, more on Savage, an avid cyclist and scholar of Chicago history
Bus Tracking: The Most Interesting Thing I Read About Public Transportation Today
A study looks at Seattle’s bus-tracker system, and finds nothing but love. The biggest benefit? Eliminating the mystery of the next bus’s arrival.
A Farewell to Arms
Top 5 Things to Do This Week: Profiles Theatre goes dark (as in comedy) … Twyla Tharp stages a premiere … Matthew Sweet still needs a girlfriend … plus, loads of free stuff and the new MSI crasher’s weekend plans
Design Harvest Festival 2011
October 1 & 2, 2011–The 2nd edition of the Design Harvest Festival proved to be a mecca for design fashionistas, with droves of enthusiasts turning out to celebrate the consortium of local design vendors. Under picturesque autumn skies, furniture & accessory makers, vintage stores, antique dealers and local home design retailers popped-up shop with their latest creations as visitors perused the displays, finding new ways to beautify their homes.
Chicago Home + Garden was a media sponsor of the festival and returned with their Designer Meet Up Lounge offering complimentary consultations for attendees with Chicago’s best interior designers. Room & Board provided gorgeous pieces of furniture for the lounge and consultations. Beautiful terrariums were graciously donated by Sprout Home, in honor of their new how-to terrarium classes.
Real Estate 2011: Methods and Sources
Where we got the data and how we prepared our charts
Real Estate 2011: Home Prices
BACK TO MAIN STORY: REAL ESTATE 2011 » Charts: Chicago (PDF) » Suburbs (PDF) » Five years into the steady decline of Chicago-area home prices, the gloom is pervasive. It’s evident in the faded signs hanging on long-unsold foreclosures, in the half-empty condo towers with their swaths of darkened windows, and here in the columns … Read more
Real Estate 2011: House Prices in Chicago and the Suburbs
THE NEW NEW RULES OF REAL ESTATE: Eleven years ago, Chicago offered a guide to making the most of the sizzling-hot housing market. What a difference a decade makes. Now, confronting the realities of today’s pinched economy, local real-estate pros weigh in with the best strategies for buying or selling a home. PLUS: Our annual survey of housing prices in nearly 300 neighborhoods and towns
Bill Clinton on Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, and Fixing the Economy
My last book was about Bill Clinton’s post-presidency. He was in exile back in 2001, almost broken by the Lewinsky scandal, with his outlandish pardon to billionaire Iran arms trader Marc Rich nearly finishing him off. Today, soaring in mass affection while his onetime nemesis Barack Obama (think 2008 primaries) sinks, Clinton is no longer anything close to an exile; he’s the toast of every town and country he visits. When news broke that he was coming to town for Chicago Ideas…