Worth your time (and money): Jeanne Gang and Sandra Day O’Connor think big … Follies gets wistful … Susan Orlean waxes rhapsodic on Rin Tin Tin … plus, weekend plans from Joan of Arc’s Tim Kinsella Read more
Mayor Emanuel is stepping up his promise to cut the city's "head tax," a per-employee tax on medium and large businesses. It's unpopular, but how'd we end up with it in the first place? Read more
Last week, while I was on vacation, the release of the latest monthly Case-Shiller home price index brought a glimmer of good news: in July, for the third month in a row, local home prices were up. Could this be a sign that the Chicago real-estate market has finally bottomed out?... Read more
UNBROKEN: Five years after a bean ball ended his big-league career on the first pitch of his first at-bat, the former Cub still yearns to fulfill his big-league dream Read more
A Chicago based firm and its lawyer are suing hotels, department stores, and upscale chains like Caribou and Panera for patent infringement... because they use WiFi. It's crazy, but so is patent law. Read more
Chicago's inspector general finds that the charity founded by Da Ex-Mare's wife got $915,000 in money donated by recipients of tax increment financing, through an opaque process that generated $3.7 million for various public and private organizations. Read more
Local Option
Carl Dahlstedt—a Columbia College alum whose clothes for women and men are produced exclusively in Chicago—opened his first boutique, C. Dahlstedt (2028 W. Division St.; 773-687-8273, cdahlstedt.com), in Wicker Park late last month... Read more
