2+ hour, 5+ min ago   (595+ words) Chicago Tribune Craftsman-style homes, popular between 1905 and 1930, are mainly associated with the bungalows of California, but the Chicago area has its own vernacular examples that share many similarities with the Prairie School and the Arts & Crafts movements. For example, there’s…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (247+ words) And brick is an essential element in many classic Chicago buildings including The Rookery, the Monadnock and the Marquette Building. Frank Lloyd Wright favored Roman brick — an elongated version that mimics the architect’s horizontal structures in each unit, with Hyde…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (776+ words) Chicago Tribune Restaurants can also be incredibly expensive, and guests don’t really want to know about the kitchen shift schedule or training manual. They just know the food took forever and was salty AF. They’re one and done, thumbs down,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (450+ words) Two vacant downtown houses at Main Street and Aurora Avenue could make way for a new office building — styled to complement the nearby Water Street District — if the Naperville City Council follows an advisory panel’s recommendation. The city’s Planning and…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (646+ words) Address: 224 S. Main St., Naperville What does this business do? “We are modern American comfort elevated. Essentially, this is gourmet comfort food. When I say that, it feels cliché, but there’s no better way to explain our food,” Mason said. “We…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (452+ words) Though Lollapalooza, the height of Chicago’s summer festival season, is still weeks away, visions of a different kind of creative collaboration are dancing through the minds of some Chicago innovators this week. This version of Lolla, however, has nothing to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (41+ words) Chicago Tribune One hundred green-colored Luxembourg Chairs — manufactured by Fermob in Paris — have arrived to surround Buckingham Fountain in Chicago, providing new seating for visitors of Grant Park. More in Things To Do...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (658+ words) When architect Daniel Burnham created the 1909 Plan of Chicago, his “make no little plans” vision shaped the development of the city, its parks system and its open lakefront for more than a century. World Business Chicago, which hosted the “Horizon…...

5+ mon, 5+ day ago   (877+ words) A return to at-home entertaining is fueling a resurgence in the home and housewares industry, with an increasing demand for convenience and human connection among younger consumers serving up much of the momentum. Consumers also are no longer looking for…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (274+ words) Many glimpses of the future can be had at the National Restaurant Association Show, which concluded earlier this week at McCormick Place in Chicago. But we were most interested by something else entirely: the acknowledgment that to run a restaurant…...