Sharon Stangenes

Decor is a tiny, knock-your-socks-off kind of shop on Cornelia Avenue at Broadway in Chicago, where owner Larry Glick presides over a personalized home accessories store that can be found...

Joe and Gene Silverberg have always done a good business in ties at their Bigsby & Kruthers stores, so when considering how to expand their mini-menswear empire, they decided it...

There was nothing fishy about the group clothed in white T-shirts and white pants who showed up at the Sea Lion Pool at Lincoln Park Zoo recently. Looking like a...

Shoppers at the Chicago area Spiegel Outlet Stores are finding more home furnishings next to the company`s clothes. According to outlet furniture buyer Mel Weeks, the Oak Brook company found...

There is nothing like company coming to spur that extra effort to finish a home project. So the porch was still being painted only hours before an estimated 400 people...

Want to get together with a friend after work? Why not meet at the corner of Michigan Avenue, East Illinois Street, Cityfront Plaza Drive and NBC Plaza? That mouthful should...

When Todd Granzow was growing up in Oak Park, he and the other kids on the block considered the nearby Frank Lloyd Wright studio ''eccentric'' and a curiosity. Abandoned and...

A window that doubles as a television screen for intraoffice conferences, a voice-sensitive computer that flashes the daily mail on a screen when asked, and a translucent privacy window that...

Interior designers, architectects and facilities planners attending the recent NEOCON were invited to celebrate the imagination at a party hosted by the Illinois chapter of ASID and Allied Fibers in...

The times they are a`changing: When Chicago`s finest recently responded to a 911 call about a possible burglary, three squad cars converged at the scene of the crime within a...