By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Enoteca Energy
Riccardo Michi, the owner of Riccardo Trattoria, takes it beyond flatware for his upcoming wine bar across the street, Riccardo Enoteca... Read more
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The quickest route to image reinvention is a new hairstyle. But then comes that tired old dilemma: Beyond a trim, what can I really do? We found six Chicagoans eager for a makeover and put their fate in the hands of six salons with reputations for courageous coifs. Read more
By Jeff Ruby
MOMENTS OF TRUTH: Explaining the strange and unbreakable bond that forms between diner and restaurant—and what happens when it doesn't Read more
By Whet Moser
New York City goes zero for three in its newest arenas. But Midwestern sports architecture provides hope for the future... and in Chicago, you can see its storied past, where it all went wrong, and where it started to improve. Read more
By Jay Pridmore
A short-lived 1960s-era program that transported street-smart Chicago Vice Lords to the hallowed halls of the Ivy League school has been largely forgotten—except by those who volunteered for the ride Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $3.295 million
The Property: When Robert and Emi Kelsey bought an old Tudor house in Winnetka ten years ago, it was sort of discombobulated. Some decades before, previous owners had sold off the property in front of the house and tacked an awkward entrance onto the back, and there were a couple of staircases but no main stairway... Read more
The Property: When Robert and Emi Kelsey bought an old Tudor house in Winnetka ten years ago, it was sort of discombobulated. Some decades before, previous owners had sold off the property in front of the house and tacked an awkward entrance onto the back, and there were a couple of staircases but no main stairway... Read more
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
I Cook, Therefore I Am
Now several overhauls away from the original Jacky, Jacky’s on Prairie has new owners—Jonadab Silva and Erin Silva Winston, also known as the current chef and the pastry chef... Read more
Now several overhauls away from the original Jacky, Jacky’s on Prairie has new owners—Jonadab Silva and Erin Silva Winston, also known as the current chef and the pastry chef... Read more
By Whet Moser
Chicagomag.com's first writer-in-residence on race, Vivian Meier, stick-up men, exchanging letters with his father, and more. Read more
By Esther Kang
Chicagomag.com on Friday will launch a blog called <a href="http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/Off-the-Grid/August-2011/The-Trauma-of-Violence-and-Our-Broken-Communities/"Off the Grid: Dispatches from Chicago’s Writers-in-Residence. Every so often, we plan to feature a new writer who will post about topics of his or her choosing—anything from personal essays to reported pieces. The only requirement is that the stories be about Chicago and its people. We’re thrilled, then, to introduce our inaugural writer-in-residence, Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here and... Read more
By Whet Moser
Standard & Poor's downgrades U.S. debt... which sees no shortage of buyers as the market goes through one of its worst days in years, with the Dow down over 600 points. What's going on? Read more