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Stacey Andeen was born and raised in the Chicago burbs. After attending college in the cornfields of Urbana-Champaign, she moved to Chicago proper and never looked back. Currently she works in marketing and brand maintenance and can occasionally be found cocktailing in Wrigleyville on the weekends. She loses her mind a little bit over Mad Men, social media, branding, Top Chef, Belgian beers, everything letterpress, Anthropologie, restaurants she can't afford, and everything involving her weird little dog, Ruby. Catch her on twitter @StaceyAndeen

SAIC Spring Art Sale

SAIC Spring Art Sale

I would very much like to be one of those people – who have original works by amazingly talented artists in their homes and sleep on big piles of money. Unfortunately, I am not one of those people – but it doesn’t mean that I can’t get enough of art. Fortunately, that’s where the twice [...]

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Quail Egg Ravioli with Shaved White Truffle at Schwa

Amazing. Generous. Schwa.

schwa [shwah} –noun Phonetics. the mid-central, neutral vowel sound typically occurring in unstressed syllables in English, however spelled, as the sound of a in alone and sofa, e in system, i in easily, o in gallop, u in circus. the phonetic symbol ə, used to represent this sound. a seriously amazing restaurant in Wicker Park, [...]

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Three Dinners

Three Dinners

I’ve never been what you’d call a particularly wealthy person. Ever. There’s never been an instance that I can think of in my life where I can say I was literally rolling around on a big pile of money. But that doesn’t mean I can’t eat like I’m the kind of person who has a [...]

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Know What I Don’t Need? A Car.

Know What I Don’t Need? A Car.

I haven’t owned a car since high school. I haven’t needed one. It’s been nice, because the combined cost of gas and insurance would render me much poorer than I had previously imagined. In college, my campus had an awesome public transportation system, and everything you ever needed to do was within a mile of [...]

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