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La Mediterranee , one of the West Loop's newest restaurants, has an offer for NYE procrastinators but you'll have to call and reserve fast.

We all love the idea of Sarah Stegner and George Bumbaris, two bigtime chefs, cooking side by side at Northbrook's Prairie Grass Cafe.

Time's almost up for the aughts, so when better to look back at the past decade in restaurants? Here are the 10 restaurants that opened in the past decade with the highest Food scores .

SHOPPING & STYLE - Gamma Player sale Global design hub Gamma Player peels some of the sticker shock off of its cutting-edge silhouettes.

PASTORAL Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine opened its third location today at the Chicago French Market in the West Loop -- the City's first and only year-round, European-inspired indoor market that gives consumers convenient, permanent and personal access to local artisans and purveyors selling an expansive assortment of organic, local and seasonal ...

The Chicago French Market, the 15,000 square foot mecca of all things fresh food, is now open to the public.

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Modern-vintage may sound like an oxymoron, but when it comes to the annual Modern Vintage Holiday Market , it's not oxymoronic at all.

CHICAGO William Blair Extends 324,700-SF Lease Through 2017 By Laurie Forbes In one of the largest office leases in Chicago this year, William Blair & Co., an investment firm, inked a 324,700-square-foot lease extension that will keep it at the Franklin Center through August 2017.

Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods and Patricia Sullivan, manager of the city's Chicago Neighborhood Tours program, said visitors need to leave the tourist-heavy Loop and Michigan Avenue areas to really see the different ethnic and cultural corners of the city.

No doomsday, but ...; Cash-strapped CTA slashes 9 express routes, trims others in attempt to balance budget By Monique Garcia and Serena Maria Daniels, Tribune reporters Maria Mora doesn't have to travel far for class.

Chicago is known as a city of neighborhoods and Patricia Sullivan, manager of the city's Chicago Neighborhood Tours program, said visitors need to leave the tourist-heavy Loop and Michigan Avenue areas to really see the different ethnic and cultural corners of the city.

The closing of this store makes us really sad at Second City Style because we think this is such a wonderful boutique in a cool shopping area in the West Loop.

Though fine dining may have cooled off a little as a result of the past year's economic turmoil, celeb chefs remain as popular as ever.

OFFICE: Darlig Hund has purchased a 22,783-square-foot building at 3828 Hughes Court in Dickinson from Hughes Court Professional Building, J.V. Jason Kieschnick of Zann Commercial Brokerage represented the buyer.

Even if your personal GDP has hit the skids, you can still afford a "spirited" Halloween drink or two with some special prices at Chicago and suburban watering holes.

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By Anna Wolfe CHICAGO-Phase one of a multi-million dollar overhaul of one of the city's train stations-including a European-style market-is scheduled to open in November.

Now that we're branching out beyond just new-construction homes and looking at resales and rentals, we can break out a feature that's been cooking in our heads for a while: It's time to read you the "nearly news." Nearly new homes are exactly what they sound like - homes that are just a few years old and are just starting to turn over for the first ...

Share + Oct 1, 2009 5:41 pm US/Central Reporting Vince Gerasole 1 of 1 A clump of Elvis Presley's hair is the most offbeat -- and potentially expensive -- item from a fan's collection to be auctioned off in Chicago later this month.