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June 2012
A New Mexico Adobe in Western Lake Forest
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.395 million
The Property: In the early 1980s, John and Sarabess Cahill fell in love with New Mexico—only John’s business was in Evanston. What to do? “We brought New Mexico here,” Sarabess says... Read more
Top Five Things to Do This Week
On the agenda: Audrey Niffenegger discuss her morbid curiosity, Jill Scott returns to the stage… comic artists take over Chicago … free Elgar… plus, the weekend plans of the Graham Foundation’s Sarah Herda. Read more
Summer Homes Harbor Hope for Change
By Dennis Rodkin
As the warmth and ease of this sunny season kick in, many people dream of owning a summer home. In Benton Harbor, Michigan, an ambitious residential development around a golf course, also comes freighted with dreams of healing entrenched poverty and racial division and of restoring spoiled industrial land... Read more
Rodkin on Upgrading a Home That’s Decreasing in Value
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Danny from Portage Park asks if it’s a good idea to continue making improvements on their home for when he and his wife want to sell it a few years, even though it has been decreasing in value. Read more
Anna Wintour Descends Upon Chicago Tonight
By Lynn Okura Bey
Political Pop-Up Shop
There will be no separation of fashion and politics tonight, when Vogue editor Anna Wintour, designer Rachel Roy, and supermodels Iman and Chanel Iman host Runway to Win, an Obama reelection fundraising event at 6 p.m. at Harpo Studios (110 N. Carpenter St.)... Read more