List Price: $2.34 million The Property: This four-story limestone townhouse built in the late 19th century is part of a block of nine known as the Fairbank Row Houses. They are named after Kellogg and Janet Ayer Fairbank, a high-society couple who lived in one of the homes and may have owned several of the others... Read more
Seven Questions for Ian Schrager
Schrager bought the Ambassador East Hotel and its legendary restaurant, the Pump Room, in April 2010. Yesterday, he announced his plans to reinvent the hotel as Public Chicago... Read more
This Week’s Five: No exotic getaway planned this Memorial Day? No sweat. We’ve got great picks, plus a weekend agenda from the Art Institute’s design guru, Zoë Ryan Read more
The Emanuel administration pulls TIF data out of its inflexible PDF jail, making it sortable and downloadable; meanwhile, the Illinois Senate Redistricting Committee puts the process on Google Earth. Read more
List Price: $2.5 million
The Property: Now this is a ranch house. The Orland Park residence is infused with the character and materials of the American West, from its log-framed entry to the forest of timber beams and the huge stone chimney in the great room... Read more
This Week’s Five: A pared-down Porgy and Bess debuts … Chicago History Museum is out and proud … our pints runneth over with craft beer … four seriously big freebies … plus, weekend plans from the Midwest Independent Film Festival’s Mike McNamara Read more
FUTURE IMPERFECT: Ing’s heart is in the right place, but its science is not Read more