Lincolnwood’s old Hyatt has long since fallen into disrepair and exists mostly as a cult kitsch memory. But the Chicago firm behind it is responsible for more of the local skyline than you might realize.
A new cable (Starz) drama about political megalomania unfolds in—where else?—our mayor’s office
ON HER OWN: After singing with The Swell Season and Iron and Wine, the ingénue and co-star of the movie “Once” gets married and records a solo album in Chicago
Story highlights from the November 2011 issue of Chicago magazine.
Tonight Susanna Mälkki leads the CSO in Charles Ives’s “The Unanswered Question,” a short, funny, eerie little piece that’s either about the cosmos or tonality.
GREAT BRIT: His bucket list, foods he can’t live without, fantasy opera team, and more
Dmitry Samarov met his future editor when the Northwestern prof bought one of the artist’s paintings in 2001. Here, more on Savage, an avid cyclist and scholar of Chicago history
Top 5 Things to Do This Week: Profiles Theatre goes dark (as in comedy) … Twyla Tharp stages a premiere … Matthew Sweet still needs a girlfriend … plus, loads of free stuff and the new MSI crasher’s weekend plans
The comedian whom Marc Maron describes as “the best comic in the country,” a veteran of Patton Oswalt’s “Comedians of Comedy Tour,” does a two-night stand this weekend.
Worth your time (and money): Jeanne Gang and Sandra Day O’Connor think big … Follies gets wistful … Susan Orlean waxes rhapsodic on Rin Tin Tin … plus, weekend plans from Joan of Arc’s Tim Kinsella
