Life imitated art last night when one of America’s most beloved sports movies, Field of Dreams, became a reality in the small town of Dyersville, Iowa. The Chicago White Sox played the New York Yankees on a field specially built among the cornfields next to the original 1989 movie site. The Field of Dreams game was […]
Life imitated art last night when one of America’s most beloved sports movies, Field of Dreams, became a reality in the small town of Dyersville, Iowa. The Chicago White Sox played the New York Yankees on a field specially built among the cornfields next to the original 1989 movie site. The Field of Dreams game was […]
This year marks 11 years of celebrating the local businesses and organizations that make Chicago and the North Shore so special. The pandemic tested so many of us to our limits, especially small business owners and their employees. Every year, we ask you to vote for your favorites — from restaurants, hotels and theaters to […]
“This was a blank slate,” says interior designer Michael Abrams of a newly-built single-family home smack dab in the middle of Lincoln Park. He designed the interiors for a family of four; the parents were both busy doctors. The family left their furniture behind when they relocated from their previous home in Texas. Perhaps because […]
Sometimes a roadblock leads to an interesting route, as was the case when a North Shore couple discovered an obstacle to building their smaller, chicer, empty-nest abode on a lush one-acre ravine-front lot in Highland Park — the existing house on the site. “This area is a historic district, so we couldn’t tear it down,” […]
Ben Lenhardt loves gardens fervently, and he’s got the résumé to prove it. Lenhardt, who lives in Winnetka and in Charleston, South Carolina, retired from a successful investment management career to focus intently on his passions: gardening and historic preservation. In Winnetka, he filled his ravine garden with Caesar’s Brother Siberian iris and Japanese butterbur. […]
When a couple walked into a stucco-clad Kenilworth house, built in 1893 as a dormitory for a private school, they quickly realized they’d found the perfect home for their family, which included two young children and a third on the way. The front foyer was bathed in natural daylight, which streamed in from the third-floor […]
When a couple walked into a stucco-clad Kenilworth house, built in 1893 as a dormitory for a private school, they quickly realized they’d found the perfect home for their family, which included two young children and a third on the way. The front foyer was bathed in natural daylight, which streamed in from the third-floor […]
Boat cruises, dining and cocktails, Ferris wheel rides and fireworks will begin their long-awaited return this month to Chicago’s iconic Navy Pier. With stringent Covid-19 sanitation practices and safety protocols in place — from the garages to the shops, restaurants and the new 223-room Sable Hotel — guests should feel secure their visits will be […]
A Chicago bungalow owned by designer Claire Staszak is both family-friendly and chic.
