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A Well-Schooled Home in Lake View
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $2.39 million
The Property: Andy Bowyer, the president of the homebuilder Middlefork Capital, recalls setting out to build a new house a few doors south of Lake View’s Blaine Elementary School. “In my mind,” he says, “we were designing for a family...” Read more
A Guide to Great Facial Hair
By Steven Yaccino
OUR FACIAL HAIR PRIMER: One beard we love, the most flattering fuzz for your face, and the answer to the question, "Can a beard get you laid?" Read more
Great Hair Makeovers
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
Is Sports Architecture in Decline?
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
In Winnetka: With Update and Expansion, Twice the Arts and Twice the Crafts
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
Jacky's on Prairie Bought by Its Chef, Menu to Shrink
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