« GEMINI WADLEY JORDAN WILLIAMS » AGE: 23 OCCUPATION: marketing director HOMETOWN: Lake View LIVES IN: Wicker Park Related: IN THE MAGAZINE » PHOTOS: BEHIND THE SCENES » VIDEO: GET TO KNOW COVER BOY PATRICK SHARP » POLL: FAVORITE COVER—HUDSON OR SHARP? » BACK TO ALL 50 » Pascale Wellin grew up in Lake View, … Read more
« PASCALE WELLIN SASHA ADLER » AGE: 26 OCCUPATION: graphic designer HOMETOWN: Springfield, Missouri LIVES IN: Pilsen Related: IN THE MAGAZINE » PHOTOS: BEHIND THE SCENES » VIDEO: GET TO KNOW COVER BOY PATRICK SHARP » POLL: FAVORITE COVER—HUDSON OR SHARP? » BACK TO ALL 50 » The graphic designer Jordan Williams, with two friends … Read more
« AMY GUTH TONIA KIM » AGE: 29 OCCUPATION: singer and actress HOMETOWN: Chicago's South Side Related: IN THE MAGAZINE » PHOTOS: BEHIND THE SCENES » VIDEO: GET TO KNOW COVER BOY PATRICK SHARP » POLL: FAVORITE COVER—HUDSON OR SHARP? » BACK TO ALL 50 » The life of the singer and actress Jennifer Hudson … Read more
« PAUL SERENO GERRI SHUTE » AGE: 29 OCCUPATION: professional hockey player HOMETOWN: Thunder Bay, Ontario For more on Sharp, click here. Photograph: Maria Ponce
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The Alinea chef’s moment of gastronomic time-travel is due to present its first menu, a tribute to the legendary French chef drawn from his “Le Guide Culinaire,” on April 1. But it’s not the first time Achatz has served up Escoffier’s recipes.
Mayoral candidate Miguel del Valle says he declined an invitation from Rahm Emanuel to co-chair the mayor-elect’s transition team. Del Valle told me in a phone interview that he turned the position down because—after his term as City Clerk is over on May 15th—he will work on other projects “organizing around progressive issues in the neighborhoods.”…
Yesterday’s big business news was that Chicago-based Boeing won a $35b contract to replace the Air Force’s extremely old tanker planes over the European conglomerate EADS. It’s the third time the contract has been awarded, and the latest development in one of Washington’s longest, most expensive dramas.
Rich Daley suffered his share of controversial stories about his brothers Bill and John, but they were not nearly as dramatic as what awaits us with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Last night on WIND’s Mike Gallagher Show, the conservative host was in full outrage mode over a story…
The city is set to break a monthly snowfall record that’s stood since the 19th century. Just be grateful that it’s not a dark mush of cigar ashes, soot, and “horseshoe particle” like the one that fell back then.
