THE NEW MAN ON FIVE: In his first few months as mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel has moved at breakneck speed to tackle long-neglected problems and drag a torpid bureaucracy into the 21st century. But the biggest battles lie ahead. Does he have what it takes to save the city?
In August, under gray skies threatening rain, the new mayor met us on the roof of City Hall for his cover photo shoot. Check out the behind-the-scenes pics below.
Scenes from the mayor’s first few months in office
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The Property: In 1910, John A. Nourse, a Chicago lumberman and veteran of the Civil War—where he served with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery—moved his family to a big new residence on a large lot in Wilmette. A century later, the neighborhood still has brick-paved streets, and the house remains a stately presence on its corner. But the place has been expanded and updated to provide for a 21st-century family, while keeping much of its early 20th-century charm intact…
The modern-leaning Chicago-based linens company Unison has just debuted a baby/kids line…
The downstate community of Pembroke is in the news again for its poverty, as it has been for over four decades. Studies and plans come and go, but it’s remained rural, agricultural, and barely developed—which is its next plan for the future.
“He’s got the talent behind him and the money,” says Kelly Golden, owner of Neapolitan, of Gordon. “It’s a winning formula.” When the promising young designer Wes Gordon launched his fashion line in New York in 2009, it wasn’t long before his elegant, finely crafted clothes caught the eye of buyers from Saks Fifth Avenue … Read more
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Means of commute, compared, from slow zones to 5000-series cars. Plus: a modest request to go Mass Mohair on an old-school, art-deco Electroliner.
