Carlisle Wide Plank Floor Opening

By JAN PARR

Carlisle is not new to the Chicago market (for a few years it was in a showroom on Wells St.) but it’s just relocated... Read more

More Bike Lanes Equals More Bikes, and Chicago Has a Ways to Go

By Whet Moser

Should cities build bike lanes to fulfill demand? No, suggests the findings of a recent survey: building bike lanes creates demand, just as building more roads leads to having more cars on the road. Read more

Where to go this weekend: Bloomington, Indiana

By Catey Sullivan

Small Wheels
For the better part of the past century, Indiana has ushered in spring with the Little 500, bicycle races modeled on the Indy 500... Read more

Red States, Blue States: Political Polarization Rides the Rails

By Whet Moser

A lot is made about red states and blue states, but it's more accurate to say the country is a patchwork of blue cities and red hinterlands. And those patterns follow rail networks to a surprising degree if you look at precinct-level returns. Read more

Weekend Photos: CIMM After-Party at Rodan

After the screens for the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival went dark last Thursday, Rodan kept the flicks-plus-tunes theme going steady. The Wicker Park bar and lounge played host to the festival’s opening-night after-party, where reggae DJs dug into record crates beside projections of moving pictures... Read more

Infrastructure Privatization, Legislative Privatization, and the Loss of Faith in the Public Sector

By Whet Moser

The city faces a big expense because of a non-compete clause in its parking-garage privatization deal. This will raise more skepticism about transparency with the proposed infrastructure trust... but it's not like we got great transparency or oversight from prior privatization deals. Read more

A Fun Project in River North

By Dennis Rodkin

List Price: $4.475 million
Sale Price: $4.025 million
The Property: A four-story, six-bedroom River North house that a couple built for the fun of it in 2008 sold on April 2 for the highest price paid in the neighborhood since June 2007... Read more

Finish This Sentence: Cindy Galvin of Maze Home

By GINA BAZER

Cindy Galvin is the stylish owner of Bardes Interiors and Maze Home in Winnetka... Read more

This Week in Urbanism: Speed Cameras, Bike Share, and Walking

By Whet Moser

City Council signs off on a bike-share program (the same vendor as Washington, D.C., with the same pricing structure) and prepares to take on speed cameras; why Americans don't walk; and more Read more

Newsreels of Old Chicago

By Whet Moser

"Loyola Students Vie for Prize Beer Keg in Odd Pushball Game"; the most shot-at gangster in the country tells the Senate how to set the kids on the straight and narrow; and other good/bad ideas. Read more

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