For Chicago Magazine

Lisa Bertagnoli

Flowers for Dreams draws millennials with hip take on bouquets

May 21, 2019 at 2:41 a.m.

It offers only six bouquets. They're designed to order, wrapped in burlap and delivered by bike messenger, with prices starting at $35. The company donates 25 percent of its profits...

High Minded

July 3, 2026 at 12:28 a.m.

A rooftop garden in Wicker Park is a home (ever so slightly) away from home

A Taste for Simplicity

July 3, 2026 at 2:09 a.m.

In his chicly minimalist restaurants and in his own sleek home, Donnie Madia likes order—of the highest order

Subterranean Cool

July 3, 2026 at 2:16 a.m.

A basement becomes a high-style retreat—and goes green at the same time.

Married with history

August 22, 2021 at 8:54 p.m.

Josephine Cygal's wedding dress, first worn in June 1943, wasn't exactly pampered over the years. When it wasn't playing a part during a game of dress-up, it lay unwrapped and...

Just call Sarah Kincaid "Miss September." She won't mind at all. The 36-year-old Chicagoan was diagnosed with stage-three colon cancer eight years ago. To celebrate being cancer-free, Kincaid posed--in a...

Broad show of power

August 19, 2021 at 5:31 p.m.

One way to show economic power is to buy a lot of stuff. Another way to show that power? Don't buy any stuff at all. That's the thinking behind Tuesday's...

Footnotes

August 19, 2021 at 7:24 p.m.

You might shop for shoes at 4 p.m., when your feet are at their fullest. You might wear the same kind of socks you will wear with the shoes you...

KIDS GET IN THE PICTURE

August 19, 2021 at 10:17 p.m.

One usually does not see children at $300-a-ticket fundraisers. But kids, dozens of them, scampered about (or simply sat around) at the 24th annual Juvenile Diabetes Foundation auction, dinner and...

BAGS AND GALS

August 20, 2021 at 12:54 a.m.

Ladies' Man-About-Town Bunky Cushing would never dangle the phrase "old bags" anywhere near his fashionable female friends. So when he asked those friends to donate used designer handbags to the...