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5 Black Wednesday Parties for Grownups (or Adolescent Adults)
By Amalie Drury
Black Wednesday is to bars what Sweetest Day is to Hallmark: a pure marketing maneuver. What once was a night for city transplants to journey back home to their families—and for everyone else, a chance to hit the grocery store for last-minute cans of cranberry goo—has become a night to party hard and kick off the holidays with a beer-and-a-shot bar special because it’s Black Wednesday! (Whatever that means)... Read more
A Lincoln Park House of Unknown Origin
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4 million
The Property: Although it’s one of the biggest and most eye-catching homes on a Lincoln Park street lined with landmarks, there is very little known about the origins of today’s house. That’s surprising, because someone in the early 1890s did a fine job of creating a distinctive home with a broad façade of rough-hewn stone capped by a turret and a mansard roof... Read more
Great Gifts I
By Sarah V. White
The first in a series of our staffers’ recommendations for gifts for the design-savvy on your list... Read more
Steve Baskis: Profile of a Survivor at 19,000 Feet
By Brian Mockenhaupt
DARK VICTORY: Three years ago, Baskis, then a 22-year-old U.S. Army infantryman, was permanently blinded by a bomb while serving in Iraq. Since then, his life has been a series of challenges, many of them of his own making—including a climb of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. Read more