Arrin Williams compares his new Andersonville store, The Haymaker Shop, devoted entirely to objects and furniture made in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest, to the farm-to-table movement in the restaurant world…
Summer is high season at Devil’s Lake State Park near Baraboo, Wisconsin, but the long days of early fall are just as lovely. Chief among its scenic wonders: the Ice Age Trail, which climbs into the 1.6 million-year-old Baraboo Hills for stunning views…
On Labor Day, the young women of Ottawa who died of radium poisoning from their work at Radium Dial were memorialized. Chillingly, they were the second Radium Girls: an identical case made an identical furor in New York ten years prior, but it took years for the science, and the law, to make it to Illinois.
The graying of Obama has become a theme of this presidency: to his supporters each patch of gray reflects another piece of the mess that George W. Bush left his successor to clean up; to his detractors the gray reflects the anxious condition of a man in way over his head. I sought the opinion of Dr. Charles Zugerman, associate professor of clinical dermatology at the Feinberg School of Medicine of Northwestern University…
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a new series of superhero-themed buttons from Chicago’s own Busy Beaver! On Friday night, the 16-year-old button company released its next installment of 15 designs…
August 24, 2011– Chicago Luxury Beds and Chicago magazine joined together to create the Sweet Dreams event, which awakened guests with delicious hors d’oeuvres from Boutique Bites, refreshing cocktails, and complimentary appointments to view the latest collections. During this delightful evening, Jan Parr, co-host of the reception and editor of Chicago Home & Garden magazine, gave a presentation on current bedroom design trends.
Alex Kotlowitz explains the danger of crafting a single narrative—and discusses the great Chicago (and American) paradox.
List Price: $3.2 million
Sale Price: $2.25 million
The Property: First listed in 2007 for $6.5 million, this once-grand mansion on five acres in central Lake Forest sold on September 7 for $2.25 million—just 34 percent of the original asking price. Built in 1914, its architect was Arthur Heun, who designed many of the premier mansions in Chicago and Lake Forest…
Over the long weekend I tackled a long-delayed project: painting an old Heywood-Wakefield end table with high-gloss black paint…
Our writer-at-large Bryan Smith looks back on his September 11th reporting from Ground Zero.
