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124 Best Dishes
By Dennis Ray Wheaton
We scoured the city for the top offerings on Chicago's world-class restaurant scene. From appetizer through dessert, from über haute pineapple rum soup to down-home juicy fried chicken, here's your road map to the 124 yummiest dishes around. Read more
This Week on Spike—October 10
By Dennis Rodkin

Dennis Rodkin appears regularly on WGN's Spike O'Dell Radio Program sometimes discussing properties not mentioned in the Deal Estate blog. Check back here each week to find links and information for those listings.
From the 10/10/07 show:

Glencoe - $364,900
MLS # 06672448
Agent: Valeria Levitin, New Century Realty
847 920 9000
No online contact given
Lake Forest - $399,000
MLS # 06516836
Agent: Liz Bulf, Prairie Shore Properties, 847 733 2826; lizbulf@prairieshore.com
http://www.prairieshoreproperties.com/search/search.cfm
Type in listing #06516836

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Celluloid and Cellulite

Two things everybody around here is talking about: fashion and film. We’re coming upon Fashion Focus Chicago, a week of hoopla surrounding local designers and local retailers. I’ll be blogging the whole thing, camera in tow. It’s also time for the Chicago International Film Fest. And since I can't possibly be two places at once, I'm thrilled that Chicago's web editor, Esther Kang, will be scouting the fest. So for the next few weeks of Coda, you get two bloggers instead of one! Read her scoop on opening night...

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Freeze Frame
By Dennis Rodkin
As Chicago's real-estate market began to experience the big chill, homeowners worried that this was the beginning of the next ice age. But as our annual house survey demonstrates, there were a few bright spots in a year that was more frustrating than desperate. Read more
Best of Chicago 2007
In our exacting annual issue dedicated to ferreting out all good things worth knowing about, we present a guide to Chicago's tastiest food; outstanding places to shop for clothing and the home; top-notch service providers; great neighborhood attractions; and, of course, sure-fire ways to have fun. Read more
Go-To Architects
By Gretchen Wahl
Whether you want to live in a house that’s a work of modern art, a green residence that’s the last word in sustainable design, or an updated bungalow, we have an architect just for you. Read more
Culture Dot Com
By Cara Jepsen
The British sexologist Havelock Ellis once said that every artist writes his own autobiography. Ellis died six decades before the advent of the Internet, but time—and the rapid expansion of the blogosphere—have proved him right. Here’s a who’s who of local cultural blogerati who are telling the world about their lives and their art. Read more
Re-Wright
By Christine Newman
When a young Oak Park couple finally bought the Frank Lloyd Wright house they had long admired, they teamed up with top-of-the-line talent to make a good house great Read more