By Elizabeth Riley
A collection of stories, tweets, and tributes chronicling the life and impact of Chicago's former first lady, including a 1994 article from the Chicago magazine archives. Read more
November 2011
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $535,000
The Property: Would you like a slice of pie? How about three? This Marina City condo combines three of the buildings’ famously pie-shape studio apartments into a single two-bedroom, two-bath home. And it comes with a delicious topping: three of the distinctive semi-circular balconies, which together provide a crescent of views of the downtown skyline, as well as the Chicago River and its historic bridges... Read more
The Property: Would you like a slice of pie? How about three? This Marina City condo combines three of the buildings’ famously pie-shape studio apartments into a single two-bedroom, two-bath home. And it comes with a delicious topping: three of the distinctive semi-circular balconies, which together provide a crescent of views of the downtown skyline, as well as the Chicago River and its historic bridges... Read more
By Jan Parr
A new Italian furniture and accessories showroom has joined the half-dozen or so other European showrooms in River North... Read more
By Whet Moser
For the judgment of the Almighty upon the perversity and wickedness of James Buchanan; for the subsidence of the Potato-rot, and for the improvement in the virtue of Congressmen; for Sewerage by and by; and other reasons Chicagoans were grateful. Read more
By Whet Moser
Giving thanks for the rebel prisoners, the war tax, the earth still unloading her manifold wealth: Thanksgiving during (Civil) wartime. Read more
By Bradley Lincoln
More than 600 artists are heading to the Merchandise Mart next week to set up for the 11th annual One of a Kind Show, a four-day marketplace of handmade furniture, jewelry, clothing, serving pieces, and art... Read more
Football only lasts so long. Your agenda for the weekend ahead: A local premiere at Chicago Shakespeare Theater … two films worth skipping the multiplex for … The Swell Season’s Markéta Irglová goes solo … Thanksgiving with Green City Market’s head honcho Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
An Illinois program that has a solid track record of preventing families from becoming homeless due to temporary crises in their finances is about to run out of money. The Illinois Homeless Prevention Program provides small grants to families that help them weather short-term financial problems that threaten to force them out of their homes. In 2010, the average grant was $916—which shows just how thin the line is between being housed and being homeless for many Illinois families... Read more
By Gina Bazer
Furniture maker Michael Dreeben always seems to have a new project up his sleeve. We first covered him in 2008, but his most recent endeavor is AKMD Collection... Read more
By Whet Moser
Decatur-area rep Bill Mitchell introduced a bill that would separate Cook County from the rest of the state, because they hold "different and firmly seated views" on "politics, society, and economics." Could downstate survive? Only if they convinced the collar counties to jump. Read more