Week Links: June 9-15, 2013
Here’s what weak this week: Free as in beer: Do you like money? Do you like Union Station? There’s a contest with $5,000 on the line for ideas for...
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First Look Inside The Esquire Theater’s Del Frisco’s Steak House
For the third time in two weeks, we’re able to bring you a peek inside a new Chicago commercial establishment before it opens. This time, it’s the Del...
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Status Update: Esquire Steakhouse
The “theater” portion of the Esquire Theater Building (58 East Oak Street) is long gone, as its transformation continues into a high-end retail and...
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Three Venerable Ladies of Oak Street Without Their Makeup
Last week e lamented the loss of three great old buildings on Oak Street in the city’s Gold Coast neighborhood. They fell to a wrecking ball making space for a...
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Three Old Gray Ladies Turn to Dust on Oak Street
The high-end retail scene that has for so long preserved the wonderful graystone buildings on Oak Street has eaten three of its wards. This past Friday we joined a...
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Status Update: Esquire Theater From Movie House to Steak House
The long-anticipated, much-worried-about conversion of the Esquire Theater (58 East Oak Street) from an historic movie house into a tasty steak house is moving along....
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Status Update: Esquire Theater
Preservationists, avert your eyes. Based on the reaction we got the last time we published a photo of the former Esquire Theater (58 East Oak Street) with a small...
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Status Update: Esquire Theater
Our Gold Coast spy sent in a photo tip yesterday. It’s construction progress on the Esquire Theater (58 East Oak Street). The building is in the middle of a...
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More Greystones Will Fall on Oak Street
Part of the charm of shopping on Oak Street is the way all of the high-end boutiques are squeezed into every available space of the stately greystones that line both...
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Status Update: Esquire Theater
There’s lots of work going on on Oak Street, as the former Esquire Theater (58 East Oak Street) is hacked into storefronts and office space. As part of the...
Read MoreEsquire Under Construction
Another big thanks to our Gold Coast Spy who e-mailed us this cameraphone shot of the construction on the Esquire Theater (58 East Oak...
Read MoreMysterious Escada Quietly Constructs
Unlike other stores in Chicago’s biggest shopping district, Escada’s move from the Magnificent Mile to Oak Street has been a very private...
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New Plan for Chicago’s Old Esquire Theater
It’s been many months since we heard about anything happening with the old Esquire Theater (58 East Oak Street). Now, there’s word from Alderman...
Read MoreBurch Leaves For Oak Branch
This past Friday, I was walking down Oak Street with our Gold Coast spy, and she said something interesting. Going past 45 East Oak Street she pointed to the vacant...
Read MoreAnother Oak Street Boutique Goes Dark
Over the last few months we’ve told you how what was once Chicago’s premier shopping street has become quieter and quieter. Some stores are moving to...
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