ML - Michigan Avenue

2014 - Issue 4 - Summer

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ABOVE: With my fellow judges at the Chicago Fashion Foundation's scholarship event. LEFT: Kicking off summer with Rob Goldberg of Tommy Bahama and Chicago Park District general superintendent and CEO Michael Kelly. Beard brothers: Bonding with '80s pop idol Boy George over our shared hirsuteness while celebrating his collaboration with jewelry designer David Thomas at Ikram. Hobnobbing with Piece & Co. founder and CEO Kathleen Wright and Madewell events manager Jo Bethishou at our Madewell in-store event. I've been an Anglophile for as long as I can remember. From Paddington Bear to the Romantic poets, from the grass courts of Wimbledon to the UK music scene, if it's from across the pond, my ears perk up. So I'm not surprised that suddenly the Brits have all of Chicago completely in thrall. New restaurants like Spencer's Jolly Posh Foods and Tony Mantuano's River Roast have locals craving lemon curd and slow-cooked roast beef; the just-opened Soho House has injected the West Loop with a dose of Cool Britannia; and Sir Richard Branson himself is preparing to open the world's first Virgin Hotel this fall in the Old Dearborn Bank Building in the Loop. Call it what you like—stiff upper lips in the City of Big Shoulders, perhaps?—but the Windy City is having a very British moment right now, and we're excited to explore it in detail in this issue. There's another big moment happening in Chicago this summer: the 10th anniversary of Millennium Park. Conceived and brought to fruition by Mayor Richard M. Daley, this was his baby and is perhaps his greatest legacy, and it has continued to blossom into one of the world's great municipal public spaces under Mayor Emanuel. In one short decade it has become an absolute icon and one of Chicago's most spectacular year-round treasures— although it's particularly pleasing during these summer months, when its spaces fill with the sights and sounds of a city at play: people splashing in Crown Fountain, lazing on the lawn of Jay Pritzker Pavilion, and taking in the city skyline ref lected in the Bean. Read Dawn Reiss's fascinating inside story on the moments that have made the park—and then do what Chicagoans do best in these glorious summer months: Get outside and experience it for yourself. Enjoy, and have a great summer! J.P. ANDERSON Follow me on Twitter at @JP_Anderson and at michiganavemag.com. 24 MICHIGANAVEMAG.COM FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

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