Grace Bird of Bird of Paradise Design joins the Elmwood Strip with the opening of her new design studio located near the corner of Elmwood and Allen. Bird to embraced her passions as an interior ...

Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for CNET covering the on-demand economy and tech culture. She grew up in Colorado, went to school in New York City and can never remember how to pronounce gif. Electric ...

Here’s the problem every gardener with a well-loved plot faces sooner or later: When does adding one more thing cause the design to descend into chaos? We’ve all seen gardens like that—too many ...

When Carol Carani and Victoria Lidstrom ran into each other five years ago at the Lake Bluff Fourth of July parade, the two, who said they were casual acquaintances at the time, discovered a mutual ...