A Helmut Jahn Valentine to Chicago’s Nighttime Lights

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1.575 million
The Property: You may recognize 600 North Fairbanks by its glassy curved corner or the cantilever on its north side that makes it appear the building was squeezed onto its site... Read more

Cassie Walker Burke Discusses the Most Powerful Chicagoans on Chicago Tonight

Cassie Walker Burke appeared on WTTW's Chicago Tonight to discuss Chicago magazine's list of the 100 most powerful Chicagoans, as featured in the March 2013 issue. Read more

Marco Rubio's Neighborhood: Actually Pretty Modest

By Whet Moser

The Florida senator got mocked for playing up his "working class neighborhood," in which he owns an expensive house. But... he's got a point. Read more

Yes, You May Touch the Art—but Touch Wisely

By Jason Foumberg

Tom Torluemke’s new mural is viewer activated. Read more

Top Five Things to Do This Week

On your agenda: The pianist Phyllis Chen takes a seat at a toy piano…the Music Box Theatre launches a 70mm film series…free art, plus the weekend plans of the Joffery Ballet dancer April Daly Read more

Team Behind Ruxbin to Open Another Restaurant in Wicker Park

By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Kristina Vragovic

Ruxbin owners have more plans for Ashland Avenue; a new and improved Dish; McDonald brings farm philosophy to Luxbar. Read more

Why the Most Significant Crime, Health, and Economic Policy Proposal in the State of the Union Was an Educational Policy

By Whet Moser

The president garnered praise and tears for his call on a gun control vote. But the most significant passage for the future of the policies he wants now had to do with education in its earliest form. Read more

Cook County Land Bank Gets Underway

By Dennis Rodkin

Vacant foreclosed properties dot the map of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. So think of the new Cook County land bank as housing’s Georges Seurat; it’s trying to arrange all those individual dots into something new and better... Read more

The State of the Union, Political Rhetoric and Defining Stupidity Down

By Whet Moser

State of the Union speeches have gotten "dumber," according to one analysis. Blame Abraham Lincoln, whose soaring rhetoric was a departure from Treasury numbers and fur-seal treaties. Read more

Valentine’s Day Concert Roundup

By Kevin McKeough

Still unsure how you’re going to spend February 14? Check out our handy guide to the shows to see—no matter what your relationship status. Read more

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