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Wright's Unity Temple gets $10 million grant for face lift

Tribune reporter

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple, a pilgrimage site for architectural buffs, will get a face lift, thanks to a $10 million grant from a Chicago-based foundation. Wednesday’s announcement about the striking Oak Park structure comes as...

Tags: Politics, Arts and Culture, National Government, Architecture, Roman Catholicism

Oprah sells West Side store space at huge loss

Special to the Tribune

Oprah Winfrey's Chicago real estate foibles continue. Almost two years ago, the talk-show queen signed off on her massively popular, Chicago-based national chatfest.  Soon afterward, she closed her flagship Oprah Store, which was located at 1017 W....

Tags: Realty, Condos, Oprah Winfrey, Environmental Issues, Water Tower Place

Ryne Sandberg sells Streeterville co-op for $580,000

Special to the Chicago Tribune

Retired Cubs star Ryne Sandberg sold his 2,500-square-foot, vintage co-op unit last week in Streeterville for $580,000. With the sale, Sandberg no longer owns any real estate in Chicago. With the exception of two years in the 1990s, he had owned...

Tags: Gold Coast, Condos, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies, Services and Shopping

Remarkable Woman: Kay Alden Nelson

Kay Alden Nelson's big break into daytime television sounds like a plot out of one of her soap opera scripts. "I was doing a dissertation for my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin at Madison on how daytime television serials can be used as mediators...

Tags: Writers Guild of America, The Bold and the Beautiful (tv program) , University of Wisconsin-Madison, Another World (tv program), Primetime Emmy Awards

Chicago's hunger and hip-hop collide on Tumblr

RedEye

Hip-hop and food are not strangers to each other--in fact the opulence and eccentricities of rap music has often lended itself well to cuisine. From Common's classic single, "The Food," to Kanye's classic snark, "What she order?/Fish filet," Chicago...

Tags: Chicago Restaurants, The Hood Internet (music group), Notorious B.I.G., Pizzas, Common

Lawsuit dropped over Prentice preservation

Tribune reporter

Two preservationist groups have dropped a lawsuit challenging the City of Chicago’s decision to deny landmark status to the old Prentice Women’s Hospital. Northwestern University plans to demolish the building in Chicago’s Streeterville...

Tags: Arts and Culture, Northwestern University, Architecture, Medical Research, Research

Pizza review: Flour & Stone

Pizza review: Flour & Stone 355 E. Ohio St. 312-822-8998 Rating: 3.5 (out of 4) When Flour & Stone opened in Streeterville last week touting "Chicago's Brooklyn-style pizza," I wasn't sure quite what to expect. I spent a few pizza-eating years as a...

Tags: Peppers, Pizzas, Onions, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure

Downtown apartment units add up, as do rents

They're back: Construction cranes. In downtown Chicago. Lots of them, a visible sign of the more than 2,600 luxury rental units that will be added to the apartment market this year. About every downtown neighborhood has a project in the works or in...

Tags: Apartments, Condos, Target, Chicago Mortgages, Condos and Houses

Prentice Women's Hospital gets a temporary reprieve

Tribune reporter

A judge Thursday gave at least a temporary reprieve to old Prentice Women's Hospital by stopping the city from issuing a demolition permit to Northwestern University until it can be determined whether the process by which the building was denied...

Tags: Arts and Culture, Medical Procedures and Tests, Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics

Food truck stands to start up next week

Twenty-one Chicago food truck stands are scheduled to begin operation by the end of next week, city officials told the Tribune and the Stew. Located in Lincoln Park, the Loop, Streeterville, Lakeview, West Town and Wicker Park the stands will allow up to...

Tags: Labor Legislation, West Town, Lakeview (Chicago, Illinois), Tribune Tower, Chicago Mayor

Who's who — and who's paying — in the Prentice preservation war

The clash between Northwestern University and preservationists over the fate of Bertrand Goldberg's old Prentice Women's Hospital is expected to climax as early as Oct. 4 when the Commission on Chicago Landmarks could begin weighing the merits of...

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