The Pullman State Historic Site partners with Chicago Artists Month to celebrate the Day of the Dead and to benefit the renovation of the 1881 Hotel Florence in Pullman. Read more
The Obama administration's new push to reduce student loan debt and simplify the process of taking it on and paying it off is... inevitably, impossibly complex. Here's a start to understanding it. Read more
What to do this week: The music of Queen + the characters of Alien = a live-action Halloween mash-up we can get behind. Plus: spine-tingling theatre, a Día de los Muertos altar walk, glow-in-the-dark art … and one paranormal enthusiast’s weekend plans Read more
Late this summer, when Drew Walker and his wife, Jill, got the latest installment of the bill for their 2011 property taxes, they noticed that the assessment on their house had gone up 17 percent from the year before. “I don’t get it,” says Walker, the afternoon host at US99. “My home’s value has done nothing but nose-dive since ’07...” Read more
One overlooked hole in the Illinois budget is the one-year disappearance of the estate tax, a complex mess years in the making that cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars over the course of a year. Read more
Sports Center Y-3, a collaboration between Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto and Adidas, opened its eighth U.S. outpost in the Gold Coast (50 E. Oak St.; 312-573-3310, y-3store.com) last month... Read more
