List Price: $549,000 The Property: You’ve heard the term “vanilla box” condos? Condos at the Carl Street Studios are more like tutti-frutti. Converted from a Victorian mansion into a complex of artists’ homes in the 1920s, Carl Street (which is actually on Burton Place) is unlike anything else in the city with its layers of eccentric artistry, unusual materials, and crazy-quilt colors... Read more
Jeff Ruby thinks that the Thai experience at Next is a party, but for Penny Pollack, it was a case of too much information, as servers layered on the historical and cultural information thicker than the curry. Read more
It's been a tough year for White Sox slugger Adam Dunn by almost every metric. But thanks to a fantastic website, I found one stat by which he can claim bragging rights this season. Read more
List Price: $1,299,999 The Property: In the early 1990s, when many of their friends in the northwest suburbs were buying vacation homes around Lake Geneva and Walworth County, Martin Nowakowski and Sharron Ames found their getaway closer to home in North Barrington... Read more
Jeff Ruby's Meal at Next in 280 Words Chicago magazine’s chief dining critic, Jeff Ruby, sent Dish this report on the new Thai menu at Next...Read more
Looking back at the best food in Chicago circa 1931, with Daily News reporter John Drury... and a time when restaurants were judges as much by who ate there as what they ate. Read more
