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
“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
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
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
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
Gin UpScofflaw 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
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
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
