Sarah Steimer 
1. Paul Vallas Vallas is so confident of finishing first on Tuesday he’s acting like he’s already mayor. On Sunday, he held a meet and greet at Barba Yianni, a Greek restaurant in Lincoln Square. The candidate slipped in through the back door, then held a brief press conference in front of microphones from all the … Read more
Take a look at properties on the market near one of the city’s longest thoroughfares.
Start at the lake and head west on Belmont Avenue — you’ll travel back through time.
Until ranked-choice voting comes to Chicago, many can’t vote for their preferred candidate if they want to be strategic.
In a city of ghost buses, the #9 remains a steadfast ride on a 90-minute stretch of Ashland.
It’s Baby Boomer vs. Gen X, Back the Blue vs. Black Lives Matter; CPS leadership vs. CTU — and it could be quite the fight.
While it’s hard to believe today, Old Town in the 1920s and ’30s was once full of struggling artists living in run-down flats. It was during this time that former Art Institute of Chicago classmates Edgar Miller and Sol Kogen left their mark on a number of old Victorians, using reclaimed materials and transforming the … Read more
Arnold Voketaitis sang 14 seasons with the Lyric Opera, mostly in what he describes as “intermediate” roles — the priest in The Magic Flute, the police commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier, Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata. Such is the fate of the bass/baritone. The tenors get all the big arias, and all the girls. Voketaitis retired … Read more
The Lincoln Park mansion was recently reduced 33 percent from its original $50 million asking price. It cost the owners $65 million to build.
