Krehbiels Sell Landmark Lake Shore Drive Mansion for $5.1 Million

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $5,850,000
Sale Price: $5,158,125
The Property: Fred and Kay Krehbiel last Monday sold the Lawrence Rockwell residence on Lake Shore Drive that they had owned since 1988... Read more

Chicago Magazine's '40 Reasons to Love Chicago' Issue Hits Newsstands November 18th

Story highlights from the December 2010 issue of Chicago magazine, including 40 inspiring people, places, and ideas that make the city special. Read more

Size Matters: Rethinking proportions at the Trump’s Rebar

By Amalie Drury

If buildings were sized like clothing, Chicago’s Trump Tower would fly an XXL flag over its front door. It’s not just tall; it’s all-around roomy. The lockers in the spa are so big I can barely reach the hooks... Read more

Anarchy Ensues

By Gina Bazer

Architectural Anarchy opens it doors tonight in Pilsen at 2229 S. Halsted St. and it’s just what the design doctors ordered... Read more

Dish Flash: By George, Guggeis is Back

By Penny Pollack & Kaitlin Petersen

“I sort of faded away, but I’m back,” says George Guggeis, the former owner of the much-fêted Mango, which shuttered in 2000 after four years in River North. Between then and now, Guggeis busied himself working behind the scenes... Read more

Adler Gifts, Lake Geneva Holiday Open House, Mart Sample Sale

By Bradley Lincoln

I’ll be the first to admit, Jonathan Adler’s shagadelic Valley of the Dolls–meets–1970s Palm Springs aesthetic isn’t for everyone (“Honey, that’s why there’s more than one dress shop,” my dear friend Renée always says), but even if you’re not sold on Adler’s colorful and aggressively vivacious vision for an entire room or home, I bet a daily dose of Adler would be welcome in your life with his new spin on such mundane necessities as magnet boards, markers, mugs, pens, and laptop and phone cases, available now at the Chicago location and online. Read more

Cub Appeal: With Lion’s Pride, Chicago Gets Its “First (Legal) Whiskey Since Prohibition”

By Amalie Drury

Feel like it’s been getting awfully dark, awfully early? Try going for a cocktail at Delilah’s smack on the dot of 5 p.m. Now that’s dark. A friend and I walked into the Lincoln Park bourbon/biker bar at exactly that hour yesterday afternoon and found ourselves doubling the patron tally to four—or maybe five... Read more

Off-season Saugatuck, Michigan

By Catey Sullivan

THE ESCAPE ARTIST: Start a new holiday tradition Read more

In Hyde Park, a 106-Year-Old House Gets a 21st-Century Makeover

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1.995 million
The Property: For more than 60 years, this Hyde Park home belonged to Bernard Meltzer and his wife, Jean. Meltzer, who died in 2007, was a University of Chicago law professor who served as a prosecutor in the Nuremberg war trials and helped formulate the United Nations Charter; his wife died in 2008... Read more

As Trade Rumors Swirl, Cubs’ Fukudome Buys on Lake Shore Drive

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1.44 million
Sale Price: $1.32 million (approximate)
The Property: Chicago Cubs outfielder Kosuke Fukudome, who on Wednesday was the subject of a rumor that he’d be traded to Boston, has bought a three-bedroom condo in a new Lake Shore Drive high-rise for about $1.32 million... Read more

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