List Price: $699,000 The Property: Of Ben Hecht’s thousand and one afternoons in Chicago, it’s likely that some were spent at this Queen Anne-style Hyde Park house where he lived in the early 1920s... Read more
Why don't Chicago drivers stop at crosswalks? The previously confusing law was only changed in 2010, and habits are hard to break. New crosswalk signs, however, make it completely explicit. Read more
Metal smith Christopher Gentner earned his reputation over the last 20 years fabricating high-end furniture and architectural pieces for the likes of Holly Hunt, Donghia, and Caste at a facility on South Albany Avenue... Read more
The murder of a 62-year-old immigrant in West Rogers Park is the latest victim attributed to a "game" of random street violence—one that's also cropped up in St. Louis and London. Read more
On your agenda: The final days of LCD Soundsytem revealed on film… A dark children’s dance show makes its American debut… free jazz… plus, the weekend plans of associate editor of Poetry magazine, Fred Sasaki. Read more
They haven’t yet signed the lease for their likely space, and another restaurant is still operating there, so they won’t yet allow publication of the address—but it’s not in the West Loop, as has previously been reported... Read more
There’s a long-overdue ray of hope in the data that Redfin released Thursday: Chicago home prices inched up 0.8 percent from June 2011 to June 2012... Read more
The jobless recovery the country is going through is tightly coupled with the decline of the middle class and the polarization of American incomes. But a Chicago Fed paper suggests that there's demand for middle class workers, and a gap not well explained by a "skills mismatch." Read more
