Relax Lounge. She arrived at the West Town spot around 10:30 p.m. and stayed until close, sipping Grey Goose and tonics, and hanging out with friends including Dale Levitski, a runner-up from Top Chef's previous season and a regular Tuesday-night bartender at Relax...

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June 2008
Nightspotted: Izard About Town

Celebrity Beat

Chicago's Stephanie Izard, whose win on the hit Bravo series Top Chef aired last night, spent Tuesday pre-celebrating at Relax Lounge. She arrived at the West Town spot around 10:30 p.m. and stayed until close, sipping Grey Goose and tonics, and hanging out with friends including Dale Levitski, a runner-up from Top Chef's previous season and a regular Tuesday-night bartender at Relax...

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Sales!

We’ve heard of lots of fun sales lately: Andrew Hollingsworth is have a “garage sale” at its warehouse at 2021 W. Fulton  and at its showroom at 222 W. Huron. Find contemporary and vintage furniture and accessories marked down 30 to 90 percent off list (such as this Louis XVI armchair for just $250). The deepest discounts will be at the warehouse, an employee tells me. The sale is June 13 and 14, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pottery Barn on Michigan Avenue is closing and having a blowout sale. Champagne Furniture Gallery is moving to the Mart in August and clearing out everything at 30 to 50 percent off. And Poggenpohl in the Mart is clearing out several of its modern display kitchens at at least 50 percent off.

–JAN PARR

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On The Market—House with a Sphinx, Gold Coast
By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $2.45 million
The Property: One of a pair of limestone homes built in the early 1880s, this nine-room, three-story Gold Coast house has a stately charm inside, from the columns that frame the open dining room to the Second Empire mantelpiece in the living room. Original details—such as the hefty wood front door and...

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Inflation Grades
By Beth Marino
Economists and curmudgeons know that prices almost invariably increase over time. But so do incomes. What are we really paying more for these days? Read more
Friends—With Benefits?
By Robert Loerzel
A new documentary establishes Jane Addams and her close friend, Mary Rozet Smith, as gay icons. Does it go too far? Read more
Three Questions
By Mark Loehrke
Jazz impresario Joe Segal makes good on a promise with the long-delayed opening of his new Jazz Showcase. Read more
Solo Show
By Lucia Mauro
Chicago-born brothers Gregory and Jeffrey Qaiyum—a.k.a. writer-actor GQ and composer JQ— put an urban spin on Shakespeare Read more
Italian Kicks, Cheap Tricks
By Penny Pollack & Jeff Ruby

Goodbye Milk, Hello Prosciutto

Carol Watson recently shuttered her Milk & Honey Bake Shop (1543 N. Damen Ave.; 773-227-1167) with plans to spin it into Cipollina, an Italian deli. “Business was fine, but I screwed up, quite frankly,” says Watson. “We don’t have a kitchen on site, so we were dragging everything over from Milk & Honey Café [1920 W. Division St.; 773-395-9434], and it was driving me nuts.” Watson is now working with John Manion (Mas) on a menu of...

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The Five
By Ann Wiens
In addition to the MCA's blockbuster Jeff Koons show, five other don't-miss exhibitions making plenty of noise Read more