A Streeterville Condo Inside the Former American Furniture Mart

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1.4 million
The Property: Lakeshore Place, once known as the American Furniture Mart, is a 1920s behemoth on the lakefront that’s heavy and dark. On its 11th floor is a condo that is the exact opposite: airy and light... Read more

Conversations with the Staff at Scofflaw, Logan Square’s Upcoming Cocktail Bar

By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers

Gin Up
Scofflaw is a gin-leaning cocktail bar owned by four partners—Andy Gould, Mandy Tandy, Kris Nagy, and Danny Shapiro —and scheduled to open March 12, with food from Mickey Neely. Like any good bar employees, Shapiro and Neely proved to be good conversationalists... Read more

Five Best Things to Do in March

By Graham Meyer

THE SHORTLIST: A few musts from this month's culture calendar Read more

For Fans of Street Photography, All the Charles Cushman You Could Wish For

By Whet Moser

For years, the Chicago businessman traveled the city and country documenting America (and some of its attractive women) on impossibly vivid Kodachrome. Now Oxford University Press has a celebration of his vast work. Read more

Charles Cushman and ‘The Day in Its Color’

By Geoffrey Johnson

COLOR THEORY: A new book on the Chicago street photographer gorgeously resurrects a lost time Read more

In Winnetka, Everything a House Ott to Be

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $4.995 million
Sale Price: $4.4 million
The Property: A grand manor home on two acres in Winnetka’s Indian Hill Club was sold February 17 for $4.4 million—just 46 percent of what its sellers were asking when they first put it on the market nearly six years ago... Read more

Big Medicaid Problems: The Decline of Health Insurance Coverage

By Whet Moser

The increase in the Medicaid rolls isn't just a problem of the Great Recession and high unemployment rates—the percentage of wage earners enrolled in the program has doubled over the past 30 years. Read more

In Hyde Park, a Cinematic Home Worthy of an Oscar

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $1.149 million The Property: Facing Promontory Point across Lake Shore Drive stands an 11-story co-op building with a façade so lovely it can only be called “cinematic.” That’s fitting, since the architects of what was originally called the Jackson Shores Apartments were Rapp and Rapp, the renowned designers of grand movie palaces, including the Chicago Theatre and Aurora’s Paramount Theatre... Read more

Eataly, New York’s Italian Market, Is Scouting Near Michigan Avenue

By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers

Five Questions for Joe Bastianich
Among his many business and media pursuits, Bastianich partners with Mario Batali and others on New York’s massive Italian market Eataly... Read more

Rick Bayless in Cascabel: Star Chef Steps into New Role

By Marcia Froelke Coburn

AND FOR HIS NEXT ACT...: In March, Rick Bayless steps into a new role, playing the romantic lead in a dramatic production that includes a three-course meal, plus dancing and daring feats by acrobats and contortionists. Which raises the question: Why would one of the nation’s foremost chefs risk his name on such a public tightrope? Read more

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