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May 2012
Planters' Punch
By BLAIR FRIEDEMAN
From the modern to the ancient, planters that are a sure-fire cure for terra cotta boredom ... Read more
An Italianate Short Sale in Highland Park
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $1.5 million
Sale Price: $1.2 million
The Property: This Italianate home with a two-story bay of windows positioned to capture breezes off nearby Lake Michigan was built in 1873 as a model home for the nascent Highland Park... Read more
So About Those Olympics: Go for the Silver
By Whet Moser
After the USOC settled its score with the IOC and paved the way for a future U.S. Olympic games, there's inevitable random chatter about another Chicago bid. If you thought the NATO summit was irritating and/or a police state.... Read more
Obama's Former Doc on the President, Health Care, and Ed Klein's New Book
By Carol Felsenthal
Barack Obama’s physician of 22 years, who in the new anti-Obama book, The Amateur, described his former patient as “distant” and “lacking passion and feeling,” is sorry he agreed to talk to the author, Ed Klein. In an interview Thursday at his Hyde Park office, 73-year-old Chicago physician David Scheiner told me that he feels “betrayed” by Klein, who uses the doc as... Read more
Week 33: Who Robs a Pregnant Woman?
By Jeff Ruby
On Tuesday, someone robbed my seven-months-pregnant wife on Clark Street. No, there is not a special place in hell for People Who Steal From Pregnant Women, because there is no such thing as hell. But if there were, that special place would be in the same scorching, roach-infested neighborhood that houses... Read more