thesilentist:

putthison:

Brooks Brothers Sale

The Silentist alerted us to a post-Christmas sale Brooks Brothers will be having next week. Starting on Monday, they’re giving the following discounts. 

• Buy four shirts and get 40% off ($47.70/shirt)
• Outerwear 30% off
• Footwear 25% off
• Casual outerwear 40% off
• Sweaters 40% off
• Luggage 30% off
• Blazers andsport coats 30% off
• Suits 30% off

To sweeten the deal, they’re throwing in an additional 20% discount if you shop on Monday. That puts most things around 50-60% off. Pretty fantastic. 

If you’re not trolling StyleForum, then you’re probably going to miss stuff like this, which is where I found the information.

Also, I should point out that the extra 20% off is supposedly in-store only. Might want to double-check with your local sales associate about that. My local store rarely has things in my size though (I swear, what’s a guy got to do to find 38Rs in Chicago), but perhaps you’ll have better luck. 

As always, I’d highly recommend picking up some of their OCBDs, which are still manufactured in the United States and feel better and better after every wash. 

victorvictorkim:

A day in the park <3

bookmania:

O’Gara & Wilson, Ltd. Chicago’s Oldest Used Bookstore. O’Gara and Wilson traces its lineage back to 1882, when a Mr. Hewitt founded the original bookshop not far from our current location. Hewitt ran the store until the 1890’s, when it became Woodworth’s, a well-known establishment where generations of professors and students did their book buying. After Woodworth the store changed hands again before it was purchased by Joseph O’Gara. A true bookman, Mr. O’Gara, along with his pipe and his cat, Lady Jane Grey, made the store into what Saul Bellow once called the best bookstore in America.

minusmanhattan:

Chicago #2767 by Jörn Vanhöfen. From his series “Aftermath.”

thedailyfeed:

WHOA. Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd was arrested after striking a deal to buy 5-10 kilos of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana. The cost was set at $575,000 to $700,000, or roughly equal to Hurd’s $685,000 base salary.