The White Sox's young left-hander hasn't just been the best pitcher in a deep rotation—he's ever so slightly outpitched perennial Cy Young candidate Justin Verlander, making him arguably the best pitcher in baseball so far. Read more
List Price: $2.395 million The Property: In the early 1980s, John and Sarabess Cahill fell in love with New Mexico—only John’s business was in Evanston. What to do? “We brought New Mexico here,” Sarabess says... Read more
That’s Their Baguette, Baby
“I was four generations of a family business. This bakery was 110 years. And I sold it,” says Pierre Zimmermann. Although Zimmermann’s father felt sad at first about the end of Bakery Zimmermann, he came around... Read more
For nine years and $30 million, Epstein lands a 20-year-old with nonexistent stats but a lot of praise from scouts. Why spend so much? Because after July, they wouldn't have been able to spend a tenth of that. Read more
List Price: $1.85 million The Property: Although it’s now jammed with strollers and baby boutiques, west Lincoln Park wasn’t nearly as family-friendly 20 years ago, when Jonathan Peabody and Lindsey Stewart decided they didn’t want to move to the suburbs to raise their kids... Read more
Sprouting from Elysian’s Fields
The gravitational pull from the mass of restaurants on Randolph Street has drawn in another upcoming project... Read more
A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY: Interior designers James Dolenc and Tom Riker take a break from city life—and contemporary style—in their hospitable new weekend home Read more
After suffering one of the worst seasons in modern baseball history last year, Adam Dunn is hitting the ball as hard as anyone in baseball—and averaging career highs in isolated power, strikeout rate, and walk rate. Plus: the best home run of the season so far. Read more
List Price: $4.5 million The Property: In Lincoln Park, where residences from yesterday and today freely mingle, today’s property is clearly new. But it doesn’t shriek 2012. Instead, its looks as if it might date to an earlier era... Read more
