It was with some trepidation that Stephanie Kim and her husband, Brendan, 40 and 42, put their Chicago townhouse on the market in June. While the place was in great shape, prices in their city were off 8% from 2010 -- and of the 30 similar homes in the area listed the previous year, only nine had sold.
Travel is the laziest form of learning. Just go somewhere you've never been, tend to your basic needs and lessons will be learned -- if only about your basic needs.
The New York Times reported this weekend on the story of the juvenile detention center in Wisconsin's rural Manitowoc County, on the shores of Lake Michigan.
A 15-year-old high school sophomore, accused of holding 23 classmates and a teacher hostage at his Wisconsin school on Monday, fired his two weapons at least five times, police believe, and had a duffel bag containing more bullets with him, authorities said Tuesday.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will hold a meeting Tuesday night to update the public on efforts to clean an oil spill in Michigan creek.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife released the first group of rehabilitated birds rescued from the Kalamazoo River oil spill.
Michigan's governor and the boss of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday they believe "significant progress" has been made on cleaning an oil spill on the Kalamazoo River, but the spill remains a serious situation.
Officials discuss oil cleanup efforts following a pipeline break in a creek that feeds into the Kalamazoo River.
An oil spill is discovered in Marshall Township, Michigan, as a result of an oil pipeline break. WDIV reports.
Officials in Michigan Thursday urged residents living near the Kalamazoo River oil spill to evacuate the area because of health concerns.
One person survived and four remained missing after a small plane crashed in Lake Michigan on Friday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The sound of the waves helps me daydream as I watch the wind carry grains of sand across my toes. Seagulls circle the water, carefully watching their prey. My niece and nephew giggle as they build sand castles on the beach. And as I look to the horizon, sailboats speckle the water with mighty freighters in the distance.
The Supreme Court, perhaps for the final time, has rejected a multistate appeal over efforts to keep the invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes ecosystem.
Wrongly accused?
updated: Tue Oct 27 2009 14:24:00
A Chicago man accused of rape was sent to jail as he swore his innocence. Did his fiancee stand by his story too?
The reality star and fiancé Joe Waterman make it official Friday night
The two guys were wrestling the heavy glass-fronted cooler from the back of a Pepsi truck.
Environmentally friendly engineering is really right up Chicago's alley -- in a city project called Green Alleys.
We all know about the Confederate states leaving the Union. But that was far from the only secessionist movement in American history. Here are some rebellious regions you won't find in too many history books.
When the Milwaukee Braves won the World Series in 1957, and when the Brewers got back there in 1982, baseball fans literally danced down Wisconsin Avenue to Lake Michigan in celebration. Even after the heartbreak of a Game 7 loss in St. Louis 26 years ago, they filled County Stadium on a chilly October day for a thank-you rally and cheered, proud and defiant, as star and future Hall of Famer Robin Yount roared around the warning track on a motorcycle.
It's the season when the red-winged blackbird nests and the males are particularly aggressive. Just ask joggers and bikers and traumatized children
Tornadoes, floods and even a mini-tsunami in Chicago. Pin part of the blame on our old friend La NiÑa
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in U.S. cities Thursday to protest federal immigration raids and deportations and to call for comprehensive immigration reform.
Bitter cold gripped most of the United States on Monday, with temperatures dipping below normal from coast to coast.
CNN meteorologist Rob Marciano has your Monday morning forecast.
Severe winter weather cause problems on the roads in Minnesota.
Are you a runner? Now you can see the sights of New York, Chicago and Washington D.C. while on the run -- literally.
Summer heat is winding down on the Lake Michigan lakefront and winter's cold wind is still months away, making this a great time to visit Chicago. And a few minutes on the Internet will show you there's more than enough going on to keep you entertained.
Plans to process a heavy grade of crude oil from oil sands in the Canadian province of Alberta have sparked a nasty battle in the Midwest, where some politicians are angry that the move will increase pollution in the Great Lakes, according to a report Wednesday.
Money Magazine: Going against the crowdsupdated: Fri May 04 2007 11:31:00
Renting at the nation's most popular beach spots comes at a premium. You're likely to get better deals in these lesser-known locales.
If you were to buy the car of your dreams - say, a Porsche 911 GT3 (sticker price, $106,000) - the odds are you'd drive it about 30 days a year and cover maybe 1,000 miles. Those are widely accepte...
Over the past three decades, Santiago Calatrava has built more than 40 structures, ranging from bridges to train stations to museums. His best work has an emotional resonance rarely found in modern...
Business 2.0: Chicagoupdated: Wed Oct 04 2006 13:10:00
Morning meetings
At 17, I was never too pooped to polka. I grew up in the suburbs of Milwaukee, and on Friday nights, a group of friends from high school and I would go to a restaurant outside town called Etzel's.
Business 2.0: Suite Dealsupdated: Sat Apr 01 2006 00:01:00
Ever since Tony Kim flipped his "Starter Home" for an $80,000 profit six months after buying it, he's been on a perpetual hunt for new ways to milk the real estate market. He scored in the past fiv...
Ever since Tony Kim flipped his "Starter Home" for an $80,000 profit six months after buying it, he's been on a perpetual hunt for new ways to milk the real estate market. He scored in the past five years with condos in Southern California and South Korea. Now he's chasing an intriguing new play: buying up individual hotel rooms.
When extended families vacation together, space is paramount. With more elbows than room, the owners of a turn-of-the-century Lakeside, Mich. house looked to the other structure on their property: a 1920s English-style carriage house long used as the family's storage shed. As children, the three siblings spent their summers in the main residence, a three-bedroom, two-bath house atop a Lake Michigan bluff. Now owners of the property--a shared inheritance from their parents--they wanted to accommodate all of their families for summers and holidays. The carriage house, while an obvious choice for more room, wasn't an easy fix. Its main floor offered two garages and a bare-bones kitchenette, the upstairs rooms were cramped, and without heat it was livable only in summer. So their architects converted one of the car bays into a living room, souped up the kitchen, added a bathroom and enclosed the screen porch for a dining room. A dormer attached to the second floor transformed the upstairs, and a heating syste...
The bodies of a father and his 9-year-old daughter were pulled from an ice-covered pond in Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, on Friday, hours after they fell through, authorities said.
A single-engine plane trying to land in a thunderstorm nose-dived into utility wires on Milwaukee's east side Saturday night, where it remained entangled for hours while the pilot was rescued, police said.
Someone says, "Wisconsin." What thoughts immediately come to mind? The Green Bay Packers? Dairy products? A TV show? ("Happy Days" for the middle-age crowd; "That '70s Show" for the younger generation).
The Cassini spacecraft has returned its first images of the smog-shrouded moon Titan that reveal surface features, including a bright area euphemistically named Xanadu that so far eludes explanation.
Hot time, summer in the city, goes the song. Yes, there are many who prefer the city to the country, even in summer, and for them, Chicago tops the list.
Money Magazine: Sheboygan, Wisconsinupdated: Mon May 05 2003 11:45:00
With world-class golf courses, a spectacular arts center and a waterfront promenade on Lake Michigan, Sheboygan, Wis. has come a long way from its curious 19th-century distinction as the city of the four Cs: chairs, cheese, churches and children.
When I first rolled into Milwaukee on a winter evening, I had nothing to fuel my wandering but the Laverne & Shirley theme song. Hardly romantic. Yet, in the wanderer's ultimate payoff, I fell in love. Unexpectedly. With Milwaukee.
Randy Robarge, a nuclear power plant supervisor, never intended to be a whistleblower. To Robarge, raising concerns about the improper storage of radioactive material at ComEd's Zion power plant on...
Located just east of Green Bay and jutting out like a thumb into Lake Michigan, Wisconsin's Door County remains, for the most part, a jealously guarded secret. Weekenders from Milwaukee (2 1/2 hours south) and Chicago (4 1/2 hours south) are a common sight. But the peninsula seldom attracts notice outside the region.
Yes, it is presumptuous of us to name the 12 best places to spend a summer vacation. Perhaps even foolhardy. After all, most of us can already see in our mind's eye a place that all but defines the...
For most of his career, Sam Hill walked the corridors--and sat in the boardrooms--of big corporations, most recently at ad agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles. When he opened his own consultancy, ...
FSB: Freeeedom!updated: Tue Feb 01 2000 00:01:00
For most of his career, Sam Hill walked the corridors--and sat in the boardrooms--of big corporations, most recently at ad agency D'Arcy, Masius, Benton & Bowles. When he opened his own consultancy...
In the summer of 1929, as Henry Luce was preparing to launch FORTUNE magazine, writer Dwight Macdonald penned a letter to a friend. "I'm busy now on a story for FORTUNE called 'Island Empires,'" he...
In the 1983 movie Risky Business, a drunken teenager named Joel, played by Tom Cruise, drives his vacationing parents' silver Porsche into Lake Michigan. (That's Joel at right trying to prevent the...
When Dana and Mike Blumberg met six years ago, they found that they loved many of the same things, starting with sailing and Whitefish Bay, Wis., a cozy, elm-lined village on Lake Michigan, just a ...
Fortune: What $1,925 buysupdated: Mon Sep 29 1986 00:01:00
Dunhill Tailors in New York City is advertising custom-tailored suits starting at $1,925. A bit steep? Consider what else that much can buy today: One month's rent on (a) a one-bedroom apartment ea...
William D. Corneliuson, 41, can love stocks or leave them. Twice in the past four years the president of Milwaukee-based Strong/Corneliuson Capital Management, which runs $1 billion of institutiona...
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