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
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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
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
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
By Graham Meyer
THE SHORTLIST: A few musts from this month's culture calendar Read more
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
By Geoffrey Johnson
COLOR THEORY: A new book on the Chicago street photographer gorgeously resurrects a lost time Read more
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
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
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
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
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
Among his many business and media pursuits, Bastianich partners with Mario Batali and others on New York’s massive Italian market Eataly... Read more