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Humrich Design Belongs to Its Riverwoods Site
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $669,000
The Property: Situated in Lake County, about 30 miles northwest of the Loop, Riverwoods was envisioned as a model town of an unusual sort: all its homes would nestle themselves in their natural surroundings, a deeply wooded plain adjacent to the Des Plaines River... Read more
Where Do Chicago's Guns Come From?
By Whet Moser
Mostly from Illinois and Indiana—and a surprising percentage come north from Mississippi. As far as how people get them, straw buyers are frequent, but friends, family members, addicts, and burglaries are all available means of illegally obtaining a weapon. Read more
Top 5 Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Everything is Terrible reinvent Total Recall with puppets and found video footage… artist Matt Maddan crosses comics and poetry… free Shakespeare… plus, the weekend plans of the filmmaker Xan Aranda. Read more
Can Pat Quinn Ban Assault Weapons in Illinois?
By Whet Moser
Illinois has long been a key battleground in the debate over the Second Amendment, from the banning of labor militias in the 1870s, to the tommy guns that curtailed Americans' rights to certain types of guns, to Morton Grove's handgun ban, the first in the nation. And that past history, stretching back to the Civil War, determines what the state can and can't do. Read more
A Lagoon Runs Through It, in Lincoln Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.695 million
The Property: From the 19th-floor vantage point of this Lincoln Park condo, you look out over most of the park, stretching from the Goethe statue at Diversey to the North Avenue beachhouse, with all the historical structures, museums and greenery in between... Read more