No repartee this week, all business. - We've received e-mails from concerned people and had to check it out for ourselves, and it looks as though Cereality at 110 South Wacker has closed down, only a couple years after Chicagoist (among other media) made a big fuss about its opening. There's even a "For Rent" sign in its front window. This kind of reaffirms our faith in the human race; if people won't pay $4.50... more ›

It's highly unlikely that any Web site has talked as much about Cereality Cereal Bar & Cafe's impending arrival than Chicagoist. more ›

Helmut Jahn is now going to be designing environmentally friendly housing for the poor in Chicago. Scheduled to be built next year on a vacant lot near Cabrini-Green, Jahn's building is environmentally friendly and made of stainless steel and glass. Its shape will be like a Twinkie, very similar to the Illinois Institute of Technology dorms he designed (pictured at the left). It will have rooftop wind turbines and solar panels, as well as a recycling system that collects rainwater and uses it to flush the toilets. more ›

Six men were taken to the hospital yesterday, complaining of nausea, light-headedness and shortness of breath caused by an unusual odor in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange building. The odor was in the telecommunications department on the second floor of the south tower at 30 South Wacker. One trader said that he didn't smell anything on the trading floor and trading at the Merc wasn't disrupted. Investigators took air samples and no toxic chemicals were reported. more ›