Budget Beat: Angin Mamiri
This modest, family-run Indonesian restaurant offers locals a taste unavailable anywhere else in Chicago
Year: 2009
Dining Out: New Sensations
The Lula duo takes Pilsen, Kleiner takes Old Town—and everyone else takes notice
Fashion Focus Chicago
The fashion event returns with spring collections, student creations and emerging designers
Opening: (K)new
The second chapter from Think’s ambitious chef
Standing Tall
Former Ward’s headquarters gets a stylish upgrade
Mini Review: Sen Sushi
Oak Park has a zen-like new sushi spot
Obsession: Falafill
Maher Chebaro’s Boys Town location boasts the results of five years of falafel research
Jim McMahon Sells His Northbrook Home
List Price: N/A
Sale Price: $2.85 million
The Property: Jim McMahon, the quarterback who led the Chicago Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX, has quietly sold his Northbrook home of more than 20 years to a neighbor. McMahon and his wife, Nancy, raised their four kids in the house; the youngest, Zach, was a senior at Glenbrook North High School last year.
A Star is Born
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Furniture designer Bladon Conner, who has been featured on this blog and in our magazine several times (his groovy designs are carried at Scout and Post 27), is going to be on TV this weekend, talking about his “edgy sustainable furniture,” which is the topic of the NBC show “Open House” Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Connor will also be hosting an open house of his own at his new studio space at 1845 W. 35th St. in McKinley Park (near Bridgeport), Saturday, November 14, from 3 to 8 p.m. Check out the designs that will be on the show, and plenty of his other fantastic work. Snacks will be served. Check his Web site for more details as the event approaches.
—GINA BAZER