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August 2010
A New Lady
By Gina Bazer
The Painted Lady has opened its second location on (where else?) hopping Grand Avenue... Read more
Going Door to Door in Lake View
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.995 million
The Property: When they set out to build a new home on a corner lot in Lake View eight years ago, the interior designer Tracy Hickman and Chad Munger moved the front door off Barry Avenue and around the corner onto Wolcott Avenue... Read more
Sam Adam Jr. and Sr. Are Out, Says a Top Defense Lawyer
By Carol Felsenthal
The father-and-son defense team that represented Rod Blagojevich in the ex-gov’s corruption case is likely to bow out before the retrial, according to a prominent veteran defense lawyer in town who knows the Adams well. My source, whom I interviewed after closing arguments in the case in late July... Read more
Lighten Up
By Gina Bazer
Scout is hosting another Ted Harris lamp extravaganza on Friday night from 6 to 10 p.m.... Read more
Books We Like: 'Historic Photos of the Chicago World's Fair' by Russell Lewis
By Geoffrey Johnson
Russell Lewis, the executive vice president and chief historian at the Chicago History Museum, prefaces Historic Photos of the Chicago World’s Fair by noting that “[t]he World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 was the most photographed event in the nineteenth century.” Many of the photos shot at Chicago’s great South Side fair ended up... Read more