HER NEXT ACT: After a sometimes controversial run as White House social secretary, Desirée Rogers is back in Chicago to tackle a new challenge. reviving Johnson Publishing and its Ebony and Jet magazines. Read more
By Penny Pollack, Kaitlin Petersen, and Lena Singer
Goodbye, Charlie
After giving a ridiculously courteous three-and-a-half-months notice, Matthias Merges left his post as director of everything Trotter-related on October 5th (officially speaking, he was director of operations and executive chef at Charlie Trotter’s)... Read more
By Penny Pollack, Kaitlin Petersen, Lena Singer, and Jeff Ruby
Modern TimesBalcony Café, on the second floor of the Art Institute's Modern Wing, will be reborn this Friday as Caffe Moderne (159 E. Monroe St.; no phone yet), with the team upstairs at Terzo Piano taking charge... Read more
The Chicago Marathon—which begins this Sunday, October 10th, at 7:30 a.m. in Grant Park—has taken over my life, and I’m not even running it. The Creative Director is, though, and over the course of his seven months of training I’ve found myself engaged in the following activities... Read more
By Penny Pollack, Lena Singer and Kaitlin Petersen
Going Public
Hitting white-collar LaSalle Street for a cross-cultural urban experience would be like going to Brooks Brothers to buy gold fronts. But IPO(172 W. Adams St.; 312-917-5608)—which opened quietly on October 4th in the W Chicago-City Center hotel—will attempt to bring the two seemingly disparate elements together. Read more
