The difference between making the sausage and making the sausage look pretty is a food stylist, a photographer, and a photo editor who has an eye for things like the angle of the curve of the melted cheese. Read more
List Price: $895,000 The Property: It’s common in new buildings to have several floors of penthouses. But in a 1926 co-op on Lake Shore Drive in Lake View, there’s just one penthouse floor, the 17th, which can be reached only from the 16th floor by a private staircase... Read more
The hometown hero, who traded supremacy with LeBron James and Chris Bosh throughout their ultimately unsuccessful run to the playoffs last year, has ceded leadership of the team to his younger teammate. And it's made them a better team, and the likely champions this year. Read more
On the agenda: Folkloric Iberian dance… a green summer festival … a free solstice celebration… plus, the weekend plans of Chicago vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz. Read more
The ordinance has the support of a majority of aldermen, and heads to committee this week before going to the full Council next week. The mayor, money, and changing times should be enough to push it through. Read more
Between 2009 and 2011, about 10 percent of Chicago’s rental housing passed through some stage of foreclosure, often leaving paid-up tenants in a gray area when a building’s foreclosing lender didn’t resell the place to a new landlord quickly. That’s where Nancy Enopena found herself this past winter after the Albany Park house where she rents a bedroom was without heat or hot water for five months—and without any water at all for several weeks... Read more
Which isn't to say they don't like McDonald's: Americans' satisfaction with fast food restaurants of all kinds is increasing, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index, despite the criticism directed at them. Read more
