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February 2011
Gradients We Can Believe In
By Whet Moser
During the 2008 campaign season, a skinny young presidential candidate adopted a sophisticated campaign graphics-design scheme that impressed the design world—and catapulted him to victory. And now, Chicago mayoral campaigns are looking a lot like Barack's... Read more
Blizzaster Beer Run: The Chaser Emerges
By Amalie Drury
SNOMG! was so fun for a while, right? First there was the anticipation and the stocking up, followed by the hunkering down, the act of being bodily blown down the street during an adrenaline rush of a midnight blizzard stroll, the hours of happy tromping and shoveling, and then—what?... Read more
Heady Beds, Bradley Hughes Opens, Fort Pitt Sale
By Bradley Lincoln
Nebraskan HGTV buff Marilyn Wilson noticed a lot of chirpy television personalities struggling to maneuver unwieldy headboards up narrow stairwells and into bedrooms, and thought that there ought to be an easier way of spiffing up a boudoir... Read more
Beyond the Secret Garden, in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.99 million
The Property: The formal, Parisian-styled façade of this home masks its past life as a warehouse, just as the stone wall that extends from it conceals a lovely garden through which a path winds to the house’s broad glass front doors... Read more