By Monica Ginzburg
URBAN OASIS: How do you turn a standard-issue builder house into a chic space suitable for both entertaining and family living?... Read more
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By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.199 million
The Property: In 1910, John A. Nourse, a Chicago lumberman and veteran of the Civil War—where he served with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery—moved his family to a big new residence on a large lot in Wilmette. A century later, the neighborhood still has brick-paved streets, and the house remains a stately presence on its corner. But the place has been expanded and updated to provide for a 21st-century family, while keeping much of its early 20th-century charm intact... Read more
The Property: In 1910, John A. Nourse, a Chicago lumberman and veteran of the Civil War—where he served with the Chicago Board of Trade Battery—moved his family to a big new residence on a large lot in Wilmette. A century later, the neighborhood still has brick-paved streets, and the house remains a stately presence on its corner. But the place has been expanded and updated to provide for a 21st-century family, while keeping much of its early 20th-century charm intact... Read more
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
La Dolce Vita
Just when you thought hotel dining was on the downswing, a new restaurant is poised to open November 1 in the upscale Radisson Blu Aqua... Read more
By Monica Westin
IN THE CARDS: To find out what's in store for 2011, we sent three directors and a playwright to get their fortunes told Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.1 million
The Property: There’s nothing junior about the Marshall Field Jr. mansion. Now containing six condominiums but once a 43-room house, the red-brick Queen Anne building looms large, both physically and metaphorically, over the most historic stretch of Prairie Avenue... Read more
The Property: There’s nothing junior about the Marshall Field Jr. mansion. Now containing six condominiums but once a 43-room house, the red-brick Queen Anne building looms large, both physically and metaphorically, over the most historic stretch of Prairie Avenue... Read more
By Jeff Ruby
FIRE POWER: Two Japanese spots in River North test the lure of robata grilling Read more
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Yusho Crazy
After leavingCharlie Trotter’s last October to strike out on his own, Matthias Merges lays the first brick in his own business this November with a yakitori-inspired restaurant in Logan Square called Yusho... Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.679 million
The Property: It’s like a huge terrarium for humans, this 31-year-old home tucked away in a densely wooded part of Riverwoods. Two-story glass walls mark the boundary between indoors and out, though there is not much distinction between the two realms, with a gigantic rubber tree growing indoors and such outdoor denizens as deer and squirrels frequently wandering up to the windows... Read more
The Property: It’s like a huge terrarium for humans, this 31-year-old home tucked away in a densely wooded part of Riverwoods. Two-story glass walls mark the boundary between indoors and out, though there is not much distinction between the two realms, with a gigantic rubber tree growing indoors and such outdoor denizens as deer and squirrels frequently wandering up to the windows... Read more
By Jennifer Wehunt
Seriously, this guy is busy. What made it into this week’s Chicago Guide was only the beginning. Read Coval’s full weekend agenda here. Read more
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
The stretch of Taylor Street in Little Italy continues to add new restaurants at a pace as blisteringly hot as a Neapolitan crust. The chef Michael Shrader has given notice at Epic and is teaming up with Jason Chan (Butter) to open Urban Union (1421 W. Taylor St.; no phone yet) this fall, if all goes well... Read more