List Price: $4.5 million The Property: In Lincoln Park, where residences from yesterday and today freely mingle, today’s property is clearly new. But it doesn’t shriek 2012. Instead, its looks as if it might date to an earlier era... Read more
On your agenda: Phylicia Rashad and Paul Oakley Stovall team up at Goodman … Directors explore the fourth dimension—and more—at Chicago Underground Film Festival … Two Brothers Brewing Company throws a bash with bands and brews Read more
The American Planning Association put its journalism awards on hiatus because not enough people cared. Has urban-planning journalism disappeared, or just migrated online? Read more
As the city looks to reduce its budget and its pension obligations, it's inevitable that public-safety employees would come under the green eyeshades. For all the fuss about clouted folks taking big pensions, the real problem is much more powerful: math. Read more
The Leelanau Peninsula has long been known for wine tasting than bird watching, but that may change as the scenic Michigan community hosts the Second Annual Leelanau Peninsula Birdfest this weekend... Read more
The new data from Case-Shiller released Tuesday showed that local home prices in March 2012 were down 39 percent from their October 2006 peak. That drop likely means even more homeowners are being pushed underwater—that is, they owe more on the mortgage than their homes are worth... Read more
In the first few months of the year, homicides are up by half over last year, though shootings are up only 14 percent. It sounds odd, but it happens. Beneath the basic crime data there's a lot of underlying complexity, but it's not well-researched or understood. Read more
Blow by Blow
New York has Blow. Los Angeles has Drybar. And honestly, we were a little jealous. The idea of a walk-in salon where stylists are trained in the art of the blowout (a blow-dry and style, in other words), well, blew us away... Read more
