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June 2011
Foes from a 1984 Project Square Off Again Over Webster Square
By Dennis Rodkin
If it seems like the struggle over plans to redevelop the shuttered Lincoln Park Hospital as a mix of homes, retail, and offices has been going on a long time, get this: some of the players say it’s rooted, in part, in a struggle 27 years ago over a residential project about six blocks away... Read more
European-Inspired Baby Boutique in Winnetka
By Bridget Maiellaro
When Catharina Maerklin and her family moved from Germany to Evanston two years ago, they brought a lot of baby gear and toys with them. “So many people stopped us on the street to ask us about our stroller and other things that aren’t so common here,” she says... Read more
Cool Shower
By Mollie Campbell
Hansgrohe and Phoenix Design have collaborated on RainBrain, a computerized tablet for the shower... Read more
Where to Go This Weekend: Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
By Catey Sullivan
Credit singer/songwriter pat mAcdonald (yes, that’s how the artist known for “The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” spells his name) for creating the all-volunteer Sturgeon Bay’s Steel Bridge Songfest. Founded in 2005 to preserve the tiny town’s 80-year-old Michigan Street Bridge, the four-day weekend of concerts this year will feature more than 150 pickers, strummers, songwriters, and singers from New Zealand to Chicago... Read more
Weekend Photos: Tzar Ultra Lounge
Don’t let that unassuming wood-paneled façade fool you: Tzar Ultra Lounge is no local dive. The new River North nightclub bears a red-carpeted entrance, a list of 150 vodkas, a vodka vault reserved for big spenders, and a staff of modelesque bartenders mixing (you guessed it) vodka cocktails... Read more
A Cautionary Foreclosure Tale from Naperville
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $825,000
Sale Price: $781,000
The Property: Although buying, fixing, and reselling foreclosures has become a hot investment prospect, this Naperville home may stand as a cautionary tale... Read more
The Chaser’s First Impressions of Tzar Ultra Lounge
By Amalie Drury
My guard was up last night from the moment I drove onto a particular block of River North, where the nightclubs Crescendo, Y, Sound-Bar, and now Tzar Ultra Lounge are all clustered. Parking my car around the corner on Franklin Street, I spotted a trio of teetering, sequined young women who had just alighted from an early model Rav4 bearing a suburban dealership logo and who nervously clutched pink Victoria’s Secret shopping bags as they read the instructions on the meter box... Read more