List Price: $2.35 million
The Property: At the end of a long private drive through an enclave of notable Wheaton homes stands this columned, ivy-covered manor. Although it looks as if it might have been picked up from some historical setting, it’s just 20 years old. It borrows, however, from the traditions of country homes in the United Kingdom and some of the grand Georgians in Virginia... Read more
Mark your calendar for Design Harvest this weekend on Grand Avenue between Damen and Wood—particularly if you need some design advice! Read more
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
The husband-and-wife team Dave and Megan Miller launched the food truck Bang Bang Pie & Coffee Show on July 1 with the dream of opening a storefront someday. Someday came quickly... Read more
The week is short. Play hard: The Goodman sees Red … the Backyard Film & Music Fest returns, with booze … the future of jazz comes to town … an expat artist spills her weekend plans … plus, three don’t-miss freebies from week 1 of Chicago Artists Month Read more
Last week, using data from our annual real-estate charts—the latest installment is featured in the October 2011 issue of Chicago, on newsstands now—I revealed which city neighborhoods have seen home values drop the most and the least since the peak of the real-estate market. This week, let’s look at the suburbs... Read more
Fermilab's legendary particle accelerator gets shut down at the end of the week, a bit shy of its 30th birthday. Due to budget cuts, it's the end of an era in American physics. But the Tevatron was on thin ice from the beginning—and it's left us a lot of data to explore. Read more
Shirting the Issue
Dana Killion started Killion, a women’s clothing line, in 2008 to fill a void she saw in the overall selection of women’s shirts. “There were blouses, and then there were very casual T-shirts,” Killion says. “I thought there should be something in between that had design detail but that was still comfortable...” Read more