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The Property: Judy Royko, the widow of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Chicago newspaper columnist Mike Royko, last Monday sold the 116-year-old Lincoln Park graystone she bought in 2003, six years after her husband’s death…
I’m not a big fan of decorating for Halloween, but if I were to step up the spook…
On Steve Jobs, the man behind Apple; and Jef Raskin, the man behind the Macintosh, an unsung computer genius whose odd, innovative ideas have never quite taken hold but continue to trail Apple’s products, 30 years after he left the company.
A Cut Above
Wendy Kaplan recently turned her longtime hobby of reupholstering old furniture into an official company…
THIS TIME IT’S PERSONAL: A homeowner decorates her new house to her own highly idiosyncratic liking
KAY ECK’S STYLE: Era-hopping eclecticism mixes classic forms with bold patterns and splashes of color
The columnist and former Chicagoan, who suffered a catastrophic illness that resulted in the amputation of both legs, talks about his medical nightmare and how he bagged an Oval Office interview with the president.
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