AFFORDABILITY'S RETURN The monthly payment on a median-priced home in the Chicago area in mid-2010 was 35 percent below the payment for that same house five years earlier, according to research by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Read more
Can you persuade your weimaraner to vamp on a Wassily chair? Or coax kitty to strike a pose on that Corbusier couch? If so, you might be able to win some sweet modernist merchandise courtesy of Modernica’s Pets on Furniture contest. Read more
List Price: $4.185 million The Property: One in a string of three prominent lakefront homes in Winnetka that are often called “the storybook houses” for their fanciful architecture, this Tudor house has a remarkable living room that seems to have sprung more from a stately English country home than a fairy tale... Read more
Pollack’s Dinner at Bistro One West in 111 WordsBistro One West (1 W. Illinois St., St. Charles; 630-444-0600) has a comfortable dining room tucked inside a building that’s a tad hard to find in the dark... Read more
Only in Italy does a utilitarian item become a thing of beauty. Moncler, the Milan-based apparel brand that pushes heavy coats in a fashion-forward direction, has opened a standalone shop on Oak Street just in time for winter lows. Read more
Our top five picks for things to do this week: For those whose New Year’s resolution was “Hear more live music”: James McMurtry … Allen Toussaint … Charlie Hunter … a behind-the-scenes chat with Lyric leading lady Deborah Voigt … plus, what hometown DJ Jesse De La Peña is doing this weekend Read more
