List Price: $2.499 million
The Project: By far the largest home in the St. Ben’s neighborhood, this newly completed mansion fills the shell of a former six-flat apartment building. The builder Bill Varney took advantage of the wide, shallow structure to create a home whose expansive southern façade lets virtually every room bask in sunlight... Read more
Noble Prize
The team behind Amelia’s Mestizo Grill in Canaryville, cousins Leo García and Eusevio García, are opening a second spot, and they’re going to a neighborhood that’s as sceney as Canaryville isn’t—Noble Square... Read more
Cabrini-Green passes into history today, bringing the project to an end, but not its story. As the Plan for Transformation continues and with it a new era of public policy, here are a few leaves from Cabrini-Green's history. Read more
This Week’s Five: Steppenwolf heats up … robots pursue world domination through opera … a rare Scorsese short gets new life ... plus, what the world-class comic artist Ivan Brunetti is doing this weekend Read more
This spring, for the first time in more than 40 years, people will be living at the same North Lawndale address as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his family did in 1966, when he came here to dramatize the desperate state of housing in Chicago’s minority neighborhoods... Read more
We’ve always admired the work of Designs for Dignity (you might remember our Chairs for Charity benefit last November)... Read more