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September 2012
Cool Vintage File Cabinets at Broadway Antique Market
By ALICE OGLETHORPE
"One of my most prized possessions is an antique wooden filing cabinet that belonged to my great grandfather.Friends are always asking where I got it and how they can get one, too. I finally have an answer to the second question: Head to Broadway Antique Market." Read more
A Primer on the Chicago Teachers Strike
By Whet Moser
The CTU strike represents an important battle not just with the Chicago Public Schools and City Hall, but between unions and the school-reform movement as well. It's trench warfare fought bullet-point by bullet-point. Read more
More Pretty Terrariums
By LESLIE MARSHALL
"Just the other day, I blogged about low-maintenance gardens-in-a-glass (here). Terrariums are the fresh new tabletop trend in town and it appears that others are taking notice." Read more
Modular Shelving by Mogen Koch
By LESLIE MARSHALL
"It’s hard to believe that the first prototype of Mogen Koch’s Shelving System was produced in 1930. Eighty years later, the Mogens Koch Shelving System has become iconic to design lovers worldwide—and it still looks as modern as ever." Read more
Unfinished Business at the Former Elysian
By Dennis Rodkin
List Price: $4.795 million
Sale Price: $4.3 million
The Property: A healthcare executive who never got around to finishing the 4,000-square-foot condo he bought in 2010 at the Elysian sold it last Thursday for $4.3 million... Read more