What Gives?

What Gives?
Thanks for sharing with us your gift-giving dilemmas over the past few weeks. Here's hoping you have a lovely holiday, enjoying the many gifts of the season. Belle Elving Editor, Home Our extended family is dwindling. We now range in age from 18 to 90.

Flash in the Can: Designs Soon Forgotten
AS 2007 draws to close, let us gather up the years trends - its baroque mirrors, its wall decals of stags, skulls and robins, its lacquered Chinese Chippendale-style chairs - and inspect them for staying power. What nifty device proved itself a clich or

Lake Shore Athletic new entry in the luxury niche
The options for those seeking a luxury retirement building continue to grow. A new upscale age-restricted building is being planned at the former Lake Shore Athletic Club on the near North Side. The circa-1920s building at 850 N. Lake Shore Drive that