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Treasure Hunter
By Marcia Froelke Coburn
At Architectural Artifacts, his huge store in Ravenswood, Stuart Grannen holds court in a kingdom of the beautiful, the rescued, and the reclaimed Read more
Re-Wright
By Christine Newman
When a young Oak Park couple finally bought the Frank Lloyd Wright house they had long admired, they teamed up with top-of-the-line talent to make a good house great Read more
Welcome to Toqueville
By Penny Pollack, Jeff Ruby, Jennifer Tanaka, and Dennis Ray Wheaton
Chicago has arrived as one of the premier dining cities on the planet, and we feature the men and women who have put it there. Read more
Five Days on the Line
By Jennifer Tanaka
After dinner at Alinea, the radically inventive restaurant that opened a year and a half ago, a Chicago magazine reporter signed on to work in the kitchen and check out the magic. Read more
The A+ Team
By Dennis Rodkin and Amy Rainey
We crunched data from more than 1,700 public elementary and middle schools in the Chicago area—evaluating everything from average class size to expenditures per student to standardized test results—and picked the 115 best. We also interviewed education experts to come up with 25 private schools deserving high marks. Read more
Solo Acts
By Noah Isackson & Jennifer Wehunt
We think they're stars in their own right: meet Chicago's cast of singles 2007, envisioned as characters from iconic films. But there's more to these scene-stealers than pretty faces. From a top chef to an academic star to a police officer, find out who rocks out on air guitar to Rage Against the Machine, whose childhood nickname was GQ, and who has an artichoke in her pocket (nope, it's not a pickup line). Read more
That’s Entertainment
Need a break from your nightlife routine? Here are some of the freshest, funkiest, funnest slices of the local scene, along with a few old favorites Read more
Tales From the Velvet Rope
By Nora O’donnell, Kate Leahy, And Brittney Blair
The not-so-secret secret about the Chicago nightlife scene is that the velvet rope is more or less a formality. However, there are some rules—as we discovered on a recent Saturday night. PLUS: Trendspotting Read more