By Geoffrey Johnson
Reviews of And So It Goes, a recent biography of Kurt Vonnegut, and the Library of America's first collection of the author's works, plus a look at how Chicago shaped the famous novelist. Read more
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By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $5.5 million
The Property: The homebuilder Joe Elias and his company, Vintage Elegant Family Estates, pride themselves on bringing an old-world timelessness to their projects. At Hidden Lakes, a gated subdivision of very large homes in South Barrington, Elias took it up several notches, layering on the European-inspired details when creating this 13,000-square-foot home for his family... Read more
The Property: The homebuilder Joe Elias and his company, Vintage Elegant Family Estates, pride themselves on bringing an old-world timelessness to their projects. At Hidden Lakes, a gated subdivision of very large homes in South Barrington, Elias took it up several notches, layering on the European-inspired details when creating this 13,000-square-foot home for his family... Read more
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Bottle Rocket
The owners of Dunlay’s, D.O.C. Wine Bar, The Smoke Daddy, and Frasca are gutting the space vacated by Leo's Coney Island, and adding a bar, woodwork, and street-front windows to create Crosby’s Kitchen which they aim to open mid-June... Read more
By Lisa Cregan
GLASS WORKS: In Bucktown, an expanded townhouse becomes a clean-lined triumph of light and shadow Read more
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Special Relativity
“The first time we ever spoke, I said I was an anti-chain person,” Alexander Brunacci told us. True to form, Brunacci’s second restaurant, instead of becoming a sister to Franks ’n’ Dawgs, will be more of a cousin... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.295 million
The Property: Late in the 1980s, as the Clybourn Corridor was making its transformation from industrial area to vibrant urban neighborhood, a long block of townhouses was built on Maud Avenue, which parallels Clybourn Avenue... Read more
The Property: Late in the 1980s, as the Clybourn Corridor was making its transformation from industrial area to vibrant urban neighborhood, a long block of townhouses was built on Maud Avenue, which parallels Clybourn Avenue... Read more
By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer
Elliot owns the restaurants Graham Elliot, Grahamwich, and the upcoming G.E.B., as well as appearing on the show MasterChef. Elliot recently named Andrew Brochu the chef at Graham Elliot... Read more
By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer
“Manor has been gutted. People who have been inside of there won’t even recognize it,” says Chris Curren, the chef of Stout Barrel House & Galley (642 N. Clark St.; no phone yet), a restaurant scheduled to open in April in the former nightclub space, from LGN Group, known for boîtes such as Manor, Stay, and RiNo... Read more
By Whet Moser
Hactivist Jeremy Hammond, practitioner of not-so-civil disobedience, gets busted by the feds... for the second time in his young life. It's practically a replay of his first arrest. Read more
By Whet Moser
The G8 says thanks-but-no-thanks to Chicago, as it moves its annual summit to the sort of place that it seems most comfortable: an impregnable resort with a history of hosting the very powerful. Read more