5 Questions for Michael Mullen of Centerpoint Properties
Chicago’s biggest industrial landlord talks rail
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Inspired by Liz Lefkofsky
Easygoing pieces that subtly challenge the comfort zone
Unbuilt Chicago Architecture Roundup
A tour through non-existent Chicago, from the old U.S. Steel plant, temporary home of the Dave Matthews Band Caravan, to architectural fantasies on display.
Rahm Emanuel Wanted to Be First Jewish House Speaker—Will the Honor Go to Eric Cantor?
Center stage in the debt limit/government default drama now playing in Washington is House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. Here in Chicago, Rahm Emanuel may be busy with the latest weekend tragedy of street gangs’ bullets missing their targets and hitting children, but he is surely keeping his eye on Capitol Hill, his old stomping ground. Were he still there, he’d be playing the Cantor role on the other side of the aisle…
Liz Lefkofsky’s Softened Edge
The philanthropist’s understated look quietly pushes boundaries
Gas Stations by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe Get New Leases on Life
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lindholm Gas Station, a remnant of his Broadacre City dream, is getting a rehab. As is a Montreal gas station designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, which has been boarded up for the past three years.
Mitt Romney's Chicago Connection
Willard Mitt Romney—most recently in the news for out-fundraising his fellow GOP presidential hopefuls candidates in the second quarter—was named after J. Willard Marriott, the famous hotelier (and fellow Mormon) who was also best friends with Mitt’s father, George. But the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president owes his middle name to George’s cousin, Milton “Mitt” Romney, who was a quarterback for…
The Nascent Obama 2012 Campaign Needs to Work on Its Messaging
An Obama senior adviser previews his boss’s 2012 campaign for Bloomberg, indicating that they know as little about our motives as voters as we know about theirs as pols.
Pacaccio Parents Blast Cook County State's Attorney's Office
As prosecutors prepared to announce charges in the 1993 murder of Tricia Pacaccio, the parents of the slain teen blasted the Cook County State’s attorney’s office for failing to act on a 2003 match between the primary suspect and DNA discovered on their daughter’s fingernails…
Michael Gargiulo to Be Charged with Killing Tricia Pacaccio
Chicago has learned that Cook County authorities on Thursday will charge a Los Angeles man with the 1993 murder of Glenview teenager Tricia Pacaccio, ending a nearly two-decade quest by the girl’s family to bring their daughter’s killer to justice. Michael Gargiulo, 35, was a primary suspect…