For a big-box furniture store, West Elm does a pretty good job of showcasing artists and marketing their original works, which is admirable considering that’s not exactly the side of its bread that’s buttered... Read more
List Price: $1.149 million
The Property: Facing Promontory Point across Lake Shore Drive stands an 11-story co-op building with a façade so lovely it can only be called “cinematic.” That’s fitting, since the architects of what was originally called the Jackson Shores Apartments were Rapp and Rapp, the renowned designers of grand movie palaces, including the Chicago Theatre and Aurora’s Paramount Theatre... Read more
The investment bank sees Illinois's shadow and concludes that our pension-funding winter will continue for another generation. But they're not panicked... yet. Read more
"Unless this has ever happened to you, you cannot understand the escalating sense of panic. I'd just get right back up, I thought. No. I could get my arms up on solid ice, but every time I did, another chunk broke off. Reach, crash. Reach, crash. The water had already saturated my parka, making my arms feel leaden. I don't know whether the water was over my head or not, but I knew I could not touch bottom." Read more
On your agenda: Steppenwolf premieres a high-school survival saga … A MacArthur genius bebops with CJE … Genghis Khan invades the Field … plus, what composer Kyle Vegter is doing this weekend Read more
Five Questions for Joe Bastianich
Among his many business and media pursuits, Bastianich partners with Mario Batali and others on New York’s massive Italian market Eataly... Read more
A look back at Chess Records' house psychedelic band, led by a pre-stardom Minnie Riperton and featuring Phil Upchurch, Mitch Aliotta, and John Jeremiah, among many others. Read more
