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Meet Rahm Emanuel's Education Transition Team
By Whet Moser
Today Rahm Emanuel announced two of his transition teams, including his education team. Since the Chicago Public Schools, teacher contracts, charter schools, and school turnarounds will all be major issues for the new mayor, here's a look at the people he's appointed to help him. Read more
Meet Neal Zucker (But You Probably Already Know Him)
By Marcia Froelke Coburn
THE SOCIAL NETWORKER: He lunches with Desirée Rogers—weekly—and has the Midas touch for fundraising among his gilded circle of friends. Take a lesson, Mark Zuckerberg: When it comes to making connections, the Chicago entrepreneur and philanthropist Neal Zucker is the paradigm of gracious chic Read more
Dish Flash: Five Questions for Stephanie Izard
By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer
The Girl & the Goat chef is planning on opening an old-school diner called The Little Goat, a super-casual restaurant inspired by Mel's Diner of TV fame and the diners she went to as a kid. Read more
Making It Work
By Gina Bazer
With a few shrewd moves, an architect improves—majorly—on a gut-rehabbed Wicker Park house Read more
Drinking Among Co-eds: The Chaser Strolls Down Memory Lane at McGee’s
By Amalie Drury
One of my favorite ways to spend a night out is to begin with something glamorous—the kind of party where your eye shadow glimmers in the soft light of the chandeliers and you fill up on endless Champagne top-offs while exclaiming that the flower arrangements are really altogether spectacular—then switch gears, ditching the heels for flats and wrapping up with something at the opposite end of the spectrum... Read more
Changing Times in Madiganistan?
By Whet Moser
For years Michael Madigan has been the quiet center of state politics, and he's been a player in local politics as well. But as he gets older, questions of succession are inevitable. Read more