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Afloat Over Lake View in a Milton Schwartz Penthouse
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $669,000
The Property: Milton Schwartz was a modernist Chicago architect best known for later buildings like the Hotel 71 (formerly the Executive House) on Wacker Drive and the now-demolished Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas... Read more
Turn-of-the-Century Chicago in Color
By Whet Moser
An old, elaborate printing process called Photocrom allowed people around the world to see Chicago rise from the prairie, from Michigan Avenue to Potter Palmer's house, as the 20th century was just beginning. Read more
Inside the Head of Jesse Jackson Jr.
By Whet Moser
Two profiles of the embattled representative, one from the beginning of his political career and one from what could be the end, bookend his ambitions and evolution, and show how what's kept Junior as a local politician could also save his job. Read more
Keck & Keck in Flossmoor
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $425,000
The Property: Chicagoans first saw the architecture of the Keck brothers at the Century of Progress Exposition, the world’s fair held here along Lake Michigan in 1933... Read more
Obama's Power Problem
By Rick Perlstein
THE OBAMA WAY: Republicans may enjoy calling the president a typical Chicago politician. But Rick Perlstein argues that Obama isn’t Chicago enough—and that’s why he faces such a tough contest on November 6. Read more