Features The Best of Chicago In our annual search for superlatives, we track down top new stores and a hot new shopping strip; neighborhood restaurants and sandwiches for summer; garden antiques and nature preserves; people in entertainment and the media; and scores of other treasures for young and old in the city and suburbs. Her … Read more
With PBS looking to expand its dwindling audience, WTTW picked Bob Sirott—a former DJ and wisecracking morning-show host—to take over a revamped Chicago Tonight.
Features Rooms at the Topby Robert SharoffWith the backing of some of the city’s top developers, the architect Lucien Lagrange is reinventing the classic luxury of an earlier age with elegant high-end apartments. Only the critics aren’t buying into his rarefied vision of how the moneyed elite should live. Women Behaving Badlyby Eric SpitznagelAfter making … Read more
Yes, there is his paparazzi-hounded Friend. But here he talks to us about growing up in Lake Forest, buying a home in the city, and why he insisted that The Break-Up be shot in Chicago
This June, after a turnaround so remarkable that it has become a business school case study, the Joffrey Ballet celebrates its 50th anniversary—and its 11th year in Chicago. Behind the revival are a few good men, a powerful women’s board, and an extraordinary company of dancers.
A legal dispute over the rights to some of Kanye West’s earliest recordings sounds a sour note on the local hip-hop scene—and offers a glimpse of a young unknown bound for megastardom.
Chicago facts, figures & findings
Six Art Institute curators weigh in on the unsung heroes of their respective departments
Photograph: © Dennis Cowley Julia Glass Julia Glass became the poster child for unlikely first-time novelists when, in 2002, at age 46 with two young children, she won the coveted National Book Award for Three Junes. The Yale-trained former artist had no formal creative writing training, making her resulting fame and bestsellerhood all the more … Read more
A puzzling idea sparks a film
