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Open Season
By Dennis Rodkin
An architect uses salvaged materials, Craigslist, day laborers, and his own ingenuity to build a crisply detailed, light-filled house Read more
Gradients We Can Believe In
By Whet Moser
During the 2008 campaign season, a skinny young presidential candidate adopted a sophisticated campaign graphics-design scheme that impressed the design world—and catapulted him to victory. And now, Chicago mayoral campaigns are looking a lot like Barack's... Read more
Some Unanswered Questions in the Mayoral Debate
By Carol Felsenthal
The City Club/Chicago Tribune-sponsored mayoral debate at the WGN studios Thursday was lively enough, but some of the more interesting exchanges happened afterwards, off camera, when each of the four participants took five minutes of questions from the press. I asked the first candidate up, Miguel del Valle, why he hadn’t... Read more
Dish Flash: Tribute Coming Soon to the Essex Inn
By Penny Pollack & Graham Meyer
When the chef Paul Wildermuth died unexpectedly on November 13th at the age of 46, he was part of a team working to open a new restaurant in the South Loop called Tribute (Essex Inn, 800 S. Michigan Ave.; no phone yet). ... Read more
Breakthroughs in Women's Health
By Karen Springen
As the medical community has belatedly acknowledged, women experience many diseases differently than men—and they are more prone to a number of ailments. Fortunately, Chicago today stands at the epicenter of women’s health research. In the following pages, we examine the latest developments on a wide range of medical fronts that have particular urgency for women Read more