Wall Street Journal story reported that Andy Goss, a former Army interrogator seeking the GOP nomination for a Congressional seat from Arizona, is proposing to cut congressional pay by 40 percent (salary is currently $174,000) and use the dollars saved to build a barracks on Capitol Hill. Four of the 19 members of the Illinois delegation go Goss one better: they sleep in their offices. All four are Chicago Democrats..." /> Wall Street Journal story reported that Andy Goss, a former Army interrogator seeking the GOP nomination for a Congressional seat from Arizona, is proposing to cut congressional pay by 40 percent (salary is currently $174,000) and use the dollars saved to build a barracks on Capitol Hill. Four of the 19 members of the Illinois delegation go Goss one better: they sleep in their offices. All four are Chicago Democrats..." /> Wall Street Journal story reported that Andy Goss, a former Army interrogator seeking the GOP nomination for a Congressional seat from Arizona, is proposing to cut congressional pay by 40 percent (salary is currently $174,000) and use the dollars saved to build a barracks on Capitol Hill. Four of the 19 members of the Illinois delegation go Goss one better: they sleep in their offices. All four are Chicago Democrats..." />
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May 2010
All the Comforts of the House (of Representatives)
By Carol Felsenthal
A recent Wall Street Journal story reported that Andy Goss, a former Army interrogator seeking the GOP nomination for a Congressional seat from Arizona, is proposing to cut congressional pay by 40 percent (salary is currently $174,000) and use the dollars saved to build a barracks on Capitol Hill. Four of the 19 members of the Illinois delegation go Goss one better: they sleep in their offices. All four are Chicago Democrats... Read more
Books We Like: 'The Promise' by Jonathan Alter
By Hillary Proctor
Having grown up six blocks from Wrigley Field, Jonathan Alter, a senior editor and columnist at Newsweek in New York, still considers himself a Chicagoan. “So when a Chicagoan was elected president, I felt the same surge of local pride as somebody who lives there permanently,” Alter told Chicago in a recent phone interview. His new book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One (Simon & Schuster; $18), is out today... Read more
Thursday Fun
   

Traditional or modern? Choose your event Thursday: For the former, from 5-8 p.m. Crosell & Co. will celebrate its newly designed MacKenzie-Childs. Guests can get a sneak preview of the shop before it opens to the public the following day. Spend $150 or more from the new collection any time during the opening party and/or weekend trunk show and get a MacKenzie-Childs heart plate. For the more modern-minded, I’ll be giving a short talk on outdoor entertaining at Vesta’s Fuego grill event starting at 6 p.m. Architects, landscape designers, and others interested in checking out Fuego’s new Element grill are welcome to enjoy Goose Island beer, BBQ, and demos. I hear the weather is going to cooperate! RSVP to crhornof@vestachicago.com.
 

-JAN PARR

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Weekend Photos: The Piggery
What to pair with pork? An apple martini ($8), according to Ken Pospiech, a co-owner of northwest Lake View’s new porcine palace, The Piggery (1625 W. Irving Park Rd.; 773-281-7447), which opened April 22nd: “We do an apple-cider glaze and we do our own applesauce, so the martini goes great with that.” Our photographer stopped by the 170-seat spot on... Read more
Hickory Chair fabric
 

When designer Thomas O’Brien was in town a couple weeks ago to speak at the Antiques Fair, Hickory Chair in the Mart held a breakfast in his honor to show off its O’Brien collection. Though not designed by the honoree, this fabric caught my eye: note how it makes the antique-style stool so very modern.

—JAN PARR

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Four Moon: The Neighborhood Bar is Alive and Well in Roscoe Village
By Amalie Drury
Part of the fun of being The Chaser is the fact that everyone I meet points me to a new bar I've never tried. The conversations usually go like this:
New Acquaintance: "Let me get this straight. You write about bars? And drinking? For work?"
The Chaser: "Yes, that is basically accurate."... Read more
City Style House Tour

On Sunday, you can tour six late 19th-century and early 20th-century private homes in the Belmont Harbor neighborhood, including this 1906 greystone renovated and designed by interior designer Tom Stringer and his partner, Scott Waller. Working with Rugo/Raff Architects, the two refurbished the home from top to bottom. Tickets to the 22nd Annual City Style House Tour are $155. At least two of the homes we have seen on previous tours have landed in the pages of our magazine.

—JAN PARR

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Former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Buys a Downtown Condo
By Dennis Rodkin
Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former secretary of the U.S. Treasury, has bought a downtown Chicago condo with his wife, Wendy. According to information from the Cook County Recorder of Deeds, in mid-April the Paulsons paid $1.45 million for a three-bedroom, 2,500-square-foot... Read more