Forks in the Road Ahead
Since last November, when the first hints arose about III Forks opening a location in River East, details have been scarce. Now, the silence has been broken... Read more
A look at popular beer-ranking sites shows Chicago to be a great town for stouts and other complex beers. Plus: who wins the Anheuser-Busch InBev/Miller showdown of gargantuan, generic beers? Read more
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
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
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
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
