HUGO BOSS launches BOSS Home
HUGO BOSS is launching the contemporary BOSS Home collection in March exclusively at Bloomingdale’s stores nationwide and online…
Issues: February 2012
Authenticity, Romney, and Mittloads of Money
The GOP frontrunner has been the subject of criticism and derision for his gaffetastic relationship to his vast wealth. It’s hard out there for the authentically wealthy.
The History of House Music and Other Things to Watch
Sonali Aggarwal follows up “Whatever Happened to Hip Hop?” with a documentary about Chicago dance music; Jeanne Gang at the Chicago Humanities Festival; William Gibson on the decline of cyberspace.
Five Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Gorilla-masked feminist avengers swoop into Columbia College … Béla Fleck gets the band back together … A Tennessee Williams classic takes a strange road at Goodman … plus, what the Columbia College associate professor and indie publisher Zach Dodson is doing this weekend.
More on Air Pollution: A Sliding Scale Over Time
Chicago has made great progress in cleaning up its skies. But the more we learn about air pollution, the more there is to address.
Conversations with the Staff at Scofflaw, Logan Square’s Upcoming Cocktail Bar
Gin Up
Scofflaw is a gin-leaning cocktail bar owned by four partners—Andy Gould, Mandy Tandy, Kris Nagy, and Danny Shapiro —and scheduled to open March 12, with food from Mickey Neely. Like any good bar employees, Shapiro and Neely proved to be good conversationalists…
Chicago Coal-Fired Power Plants Will Close to Combat the Smoke Horror
After years of protest and politics, the Fisk and Crawford plants will close even earlier than expected. But will it help Chicago’s high asthma rates? Outdoor pollution isn’t the only form we have to worry about, and it may not be the most important form.
Rahm’s Role in Fumbling the Economy: Tidbits from a New Obama Book
With the campaign season heating up, the Obama books keep coming. The latest: The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery, by The New Republic‘s senior editor Noam Scheiber, published this week by Simon & Schuster. As is the case in most Obama-related books, one of the most entertaining characters is Rahm Emanuel…
Michael Jordan Lists Highland Park Mansion for $29 Million
Michael Jordan, that most iconic of Chicago sports figures, put his gated Highland Park estate on the market this morning, asking $29 million. It is by far the highest-priced home listed in the Chicago area. A Barrington Hills estate is up for $14.9 million…
Hinsdale is on a Tear Again
Before the housing bust, Hinsdale was the Chicago area’s capital of teardowns, with more than 100 older homes replaced by new construction each year from 2004 to 2007. That pace slowed during the bust, but the demolish-and-replace trend has been percolating back to life—and accelerating in the past few months—say real-estate agents, builders, and the village official who monitors construction in that western suburb. After 29 demolitions in 2010, there were 35 in 2011, says Robert McGinnis, Hinsdale’s building commissioner, and he expects the village to top that in 2012…