Food and Drink
A sign on the door at West Town's calmly cool Hillary's Urban Eatery says that the last day of full service will be February 27 and that, at some uncertain point and in some uncertain location somewhere nearby, they'll reopen--all of which sounds to me like a hedgy way to say 'maybe.'
Food and Drink
The end of 2006 cannot come fast enough for this home cook. That's because by then, the much-anticipated downtown Chicago Trader Joe's will be open in River North.
Marina City
Many Marina City residents awoke this week to flooded apartments and ruined possessions. The culprit: a mistake made by a condo association-hired plumber that caused flooding in an as-yet unknown number of apartments in both towers. Yet even as damage reports continue to arise, the condo association
Life
Even though Chicago's own city council voted to better protect downtown residents from nuisance noise, local blog Chicagoist thinks it's cool to continue to make fun of long-suffering downtowners. So I wrote to Chicagoist publisher Jake Dobkin to tell him why it isn't.
Life
The day after the Chicago City Council votes to rein in the nuisance noise from street performers in downtown Chicago, local blog Chicagoist again backhands downtown residents. Because, you know, downtowners don't read Chicagoist?
Politics
The Chicago City Council has finally passed a long-needed set of revisions to the city's noise regulations concerning street performers. After months of contentious debate, I guess as it turns out downtown residents really do have the right to be able to hear themselves think in their own homes.
Getting Around
Finally, the CTA posts a night-owl transit service brochure on the web--right after I blogged to complain about the omission.
Marina City
Loving where you live can be a double-edged sword. As much I as revere downtown-living at Marina City, the corncobs sure have their trying moments. In my ongoing quest to determine whether they're still worth living in, I give you my top 10 reasons why I love Marina City--and my top 10 reasons why I
Getting Around
This month, the CTA finally released a new Night Owl Service brochure, detailing Chicago's overnight L and bus services. Trouble is, the brochure is nowhere to be found on the agency's website. And where was it for the past three years, anyhow?
Urbanism
Receipts at the Millennium Park Garage continue to dwindle far below the maintenance costs of Chicago's showpiece lakefront park, which the monies were supposed to cover. Bad. Helping to fund the renewal of a vibrant, transit-friendly, walkable downtown by attracting more vehicle congestion into it?
Marina City
This post covers everything you always wanted to know about Marina City but didn't know whom to ask. Irrespective of the scandals that have plagued Chicago's favorite high0rise corncobs, Marina City still represents a stunning achievement in mid-century architectural design and urban planning. Here
Chicago
It's officially been a year since the love of my life, Devyn, began--an architectural photoblog of downtown Chicago. In that short time, he's managed to take more than 10,000 photos of the Loop and its environs, post 1,000 of them on what has become one of the best photographic records of the heart