The Chicago novelist's latest is about about a man who wakes up without clothes or an identity on a beach in Maine, travels across the country's belly, and winds up in Los Angeles. Read more
List Price: $3.175 million The Property: Once known as the Stewart Apartments, 1200 North Lake Shore Drive is a Gold Coast classic. Designed by Benjamin Marshall and completed in 1913, it has a neoclassical Adam-style façade and offers, from its upper floors, spectacular views toward Lake Michigan... Read more
The Haymaker Shop, an ambitious new furniture and home accessories store devoted to Chicago- and Midwestern-made goods, opened yesterday in Andersonville at 5507 North Clark Street, and from what I’ve seen so far, it looks like a knockout... Read more
List Price: $750,000 The Property: A onetime corner candy store in Chicago got a very hip update when its corner-wrapping windows were replaced with a quirky mosaic of glass block. It’s a visual embodiment of what’s happened throughout the Roscoe Village neighborhood over the past two decades, as that former working-class community got an infusion of contemporary cool... Read more
Tony Mantuano tells Dish all about plans to close the 25-year-old Bistro 110 on August 4, and, by early fall, turn it into a bar and pizzeria. Read more
If you thought Rahm Emanuel has had a hard time getting an unwelcome tenant out of his Ravenswood house, imagine what it will take to turn the secret penthouse at the top of 200 North Dearborn into a home: to create what could be your terrace, you would first have to move an air-handling machine that weighs several tons... Read more
As Blago spends his second trial painting a long verbal portrait of himself as a genial fool, a look back at the question: how did this guy get to be governor? Read more
