By Bradley Lincoln
People, are you watching Bravo’s new design show, Million Dollar Decorators? It’s one of my favorite guilty-pleasure summer TV treats, with all the elements of what makes for reality-show success... Read more
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By Dennis Rodkin
List Price:$5.995 million
The Property: Now, in high summer, is the time when we most want our homes and gardens to mesh together as one enlarged living space. In Lake Forest, the architect Howard Van Doren Shaw executed that idea splendidly in a country estate he designed in 1909 for Hugh and Mary McBirney... Read more
The Property: Now, in high summer, is the time when we most want our homes and gardens to mesh together as one enlarged living space. In Lake Forest, the architect Howard Van Doren Shaw executed that idea splendidly in a country estate he designed in 1909 for Hugh and Mary McBirney... Read more
By Gina Bazer
Mary Garvey James’s new Lincoln Park shop Classic Remix is brimming with ideas for reinventing vintage pieces (reupholster a boring metal-framed office chair with a furry hide), combining old and new (put a contemporary sofa near a rustic factory-cart coffee table), and working with both very big and very small pieces in one space. We asked her to share her decorating secrets... Read more
By Lisa Skolnik
GREEN EXPECTATIONS: An architect gives a 19th-century rowhouse in Lincoln Park an innovative 21st-century update Read more
By Whet Moser
Two consecutive generations of corruption wracked Illinois politics, undermining the state and leading to an immense cost for the guilty and their loved ones. In the end, the ill-gotten gains seem incomprehensibly petty, but maybe it's not about the money. Read more
By Lisa Cregan
A modern cottage with echoes of classic farm architecture makes the most of its meadow Read more
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.595 million
The Property: When Stacy Nigrelli and Ronald Berlind were building their home in Bucktown in the early 1990s, the neighborhood wasn’t yet a major hot spot, and the couple consciously tried to make their place fit in among the old-timers on the block... Read more
The Property: When Stacy Nigrelli and Ronald Berlind were building their home in Bucktown in the early 1990s, the neighborhood wasn’t yet a major hot spot, and the couple consciously tried to make their place fit in among the old-timers on the block... Read more
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Pay Dirt
Yesterday a press release announced that Frank Brunacci had left Sixteen, the high-end restaurant in the Trump Tower, but the release coyly left his destination unstated... Read more
Yesterday a press release announced that Frank Brunacci had left Sixteen, the high-end restaurant in the Trump Tower, but the release coyly left his destination unstated... Read more
By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer
Yesterday a press release announced that Frank Brunacci had left Sixteen, the high-end restaurant in the Trump Tower, but the release coyly left his destination unstated. Brunacci gave us the story. Read more
By Amalie Drury
The sprawling restaurant Tavernita, set to open in the old Martini Park space (151 W. Erie St.) in September with three separate bars inside, has been raising eyebrows for weeks. First came the news that the chef Ryan Poli would be leaving Perennial to head up this Latin concept from the group behind the nearby New York import Mercadito and its basement cocktail lounge, Double A... Read more