Features

Theatre
by Bob Daily
Five friends move to town to start a theatre and find lots of company

Immigrants
by Lynda Gorov
Carlos Roulet used to be a middle-class college professor. Then he came to the United States.

Business
by Jan Parr
Choosing Chicago: Is economic development in the baguette?

First Homes
by Ben Joravsky
Richard and Amy (and Spencer and Jack) buy a house – tale of Baby Boomers and neigborhood change

New Babies
by Lynda Gorov
A brief look at 55,000 new (and small) Chicagoans

New Money
by Ben Joravsky
Tomorrow’s tycoons reveal: There’s more to wealth than money

Make No Silly Plans
by Edward Keegan and Paul Krieger
Few cities take their architecture as seriously as Chicago, so why all the misbegotten buildings and sight aches?

Off the Drawing Board
by Mark Jannot
Building a dream on the finest piece of undeveloped land in the country: Can Cityfront Center live up to its location?

A Year in the Life
by Joanne Trestrail
Local photographers record the face of the city for the Changing Chicago project

Departments

Letters

Journal
by Hillel Levin, editor
Civic leaders must wake up to the consequences of development

Metro
by David Jackson
A message from the Boss; lessor of evils

Artworks
by Henry Hanson
Lee Godie loses her digs; gallery features death in photos; a kiss remains a kiss

Chicago Woman
by Marcia Froelke Coburn
Matchmaker April Abbott specializes in advanced degrees of love

Theatre
by Anthony Adler
Taking a sledgehammer to cultural and political landmarks

Books
In this Stern world, a guy gets a girl, things fall apart, they play on

Movies
by Penelope Mesic
Woody Allen’s Another Woman takes a messy look at the ordinary life of a prig

Dining
by Carla and Allen Kelson
Three fresh approaches to casual eating out, Italian style

Back Talk
by Henry Hanson
Lily Tomlin, Stevie Wonder, Cathy Crowell Webb, Edward Hopper, Clifford Kelley

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