Sears passes through another rough quarter, with store closings, layoffs, revenue drain, and more corporate turnover. Is it a brand that's lost its identity, or did its customer base lose its identity? Read more
A timelapse video captures the nighttime beauty of the Chicago grid going west into the distance, and an astronaut shows us a storm heading towards Chicago. Read more
A last remnant of old Chicago, having served the Gold Coast for over a century, is in the process of being remade. Hopefully it will last longer than the two years that some of the Brown Line's planking gave us. Read more
The entire Chicago Home + Garden team has been pulling a lot of double shifts lately to get a hot new coffee-table book ready for the printers, and the fruits of their labor are about to pay off... Read more
The Oreo equivalent of the Big Mac is actually an Argentinian cookie coming back to us here in the states, as Kraft's growing international market works both ways. Read more
When I first saw an announcement heralding the debut of the Bravo Zulu Lounge at this year’s Chicago Air and Water Show—officially my favorite weekend of summer; is anyone else already shivering over these practice flybys?—I didn’t get it... Read more
If it sounds like an air raid downtown, it's that time of year again, a magic weekend when the blood pressure of every downtown office worker spikes. Read more
How the political ideals of the most influential economist of his generation became a movement for free-floating man-made island nations in the hands of his grandson, director of the Seasteading Institute. Read more
