Plus the end of streetwear, Chicago's peregrine falcons, a table inspired by the heartland forerunner of Legos, a reuse plan for Prentice Hospital, and more Read more
Sol Saks, who died at the age of 100 this weekend, was best known for his long-running sitcom "Bewitched," but that was merely the crowning moment in a long career that started with his family's Chicago paint shop. Read more
Smart Home opens today (Earth Day) at the Museum of Science + Industry, and if you like the idea of living green as much as you like a certain Andersonville shop called Scout, then you should definitely check it out... Read more
Now that the digital-lending service Overdrive is set to get along with Amazon at long last, you'll soon be able to check out books on your Kindle. Read more
Critics can't stand "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1." Insiders think it should be a flop. But a cursory look at the numbers suggests that the film is bulletproof, just like a certain epic about taxation. Read more
How Alan Keyes's substantial--but not 100 percent total--loss to Barack Obama--explains the world, or at least birthers and the sudden political popularity of Donald Trump. Read more
Linda Johnson Rice, the chairman of Johnson Publishing, closed yesterday on the sale of her ten-room condo at the Carlyle. The sale price was $2,255,815—77 percent of the $2.9 million Rice was asking when she first listed the condo for sale in April 2010... Read more
Design-seeking Andersonville strollers (with or without strollers) usually troll up and down Clark Street to get their shop on, but there are some eclectic, deserving destinations tucked into storefronts on easily accessed side streets as well... Read more
Former Metropolitan Home design editor and Chicago Home + Garden contributor Susan Victoria sent us a report of her faves from last month’s Architectural Digest Home Design Show in New York... Read more
List Price: $2.25 million The Property: If you had designed a home in the late 1880s knowing how families would live in 2011, you might have come up with today’s residence: imposing on the outside—all that rough-cut limestone and a pair of turrets—but warm and casual on the inside... Read more
