A '20s tattoo artist, a developer and his son, the man behind Sybaris, a "mood director," and a legendary Chicago courtroom figure: a Labor Day weekend reader. Read more
Barack Obama's veteran strategist returns home to Chicago, the city where he cut his teeth, to prepare for the 2012 election. To win the future, he's looking to the past... perhaps because the future looks cloudy. Read more
List Price: $3.25 million The Property: With Belmont Harbor at one end and the shopping and dining options of Broadway at the other, the block-long Hawthorne Place is one of Lake View’s great urban streets. But it also feels quite suburban, with big homes built on extra-large lots, mostly in the 1890s and the early 20th century... Read more
Hi, Honey Christine Cikowski and Josh Kulp, who run the underground dining club Sunday Dinner, discovered how glorious fried chicken tastes with honey butter when their staff tried it while eating their meals in the kitchen at a dinner a couple of years ago... Read more
Adam Dunn has had the worst season by any player in the past two decades, and the ninth-worst in the past 50 years. But he has provided us with some interesting statistics to enliven an otherwise-boring baseball season. Read more
I can't get away from dudes lining up to look like Don Draper, the man women want and men want to be, despite the fact that he's a self-loathing jerk. Or maybe I'm just jealous that I'm not being target-marketed to. Read more
Deuce’s and The Diamond Club, a twin-concept bar and lounge built from the ground up on the site of a former parking lot in Wrigleyville, may have opened quietly on August 1, but in a neighborhood with constant foot traffic and an insatiable taste for beer, word gets out... Read more
POCKET GUIDE: From the Route 66 Car Show in Berwyn and the Hyde Park Jazz Fest to Andrew Bird at the Hideout and the Goodman's production of "Red"—a cultural shortlist for September, in order of buzz Read more
Alex Kotlowitz talks to an ex-gang member who gives the barbers at his Cicero shop second and third—even fourth—chances to turn their lives around. Read more
