Live and Play in Chicago

Most people don’t expect much innovation from their local governments, but two city services - the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) and the Chicago Public Library - have been rolling out some pretty neat tech features. In the case of the CTA, their new bus tracker system is a feature that many of ...

Earlier this fall, Chicago attorney Peter Marx came to our weekly sales meeting at Coldwell Banker’s Gold Coast Office. He had been invited to speak to us about “short sales.” Until this year, I had never been involved in a short sale. Now, I have good friends who purchased a condo in a conversio...

One of the really cool things about living in Chicago is the incredible diversity of unique cultural offerings including great theatre, improv, music, dance, opera, and of course, cinema. The world renowned Chicago International Film Festival is now in full swing. North America’s oldest competiti...

If you have even a casual interest in historic architecture, you may be interested in this chance to tour the work of the greatest American architect of all time, Frank Lloyd Wright. Tickets for the 2009 Wright Plus tour of Wright-designed homes in Oak Park, IL are on sale now. Read more at www.l...

Chicago may be best known for its Chicago-style hot dogs and deep dish pizza, but the Windy City can also brew a mean cup of coffee as well. Need proof? In the October edition of the food and wine magazine Saveur, selections for some of the best coffees in the world included two Chicago-based bra...