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MnM Treasures, a local husband-and-wife team known simply as Michele & Mike, make Jada belt buckles with resin, papier-mache, glass, and wood. Leather belts, in black or brown, are $10. a$10-$18, mnmtreasures.etsy.com.
Our new president-elect has made it chic to be from Chicago. You can broadcast your pride with this Chicago’s Finest messenger bag emblazoned with the city’s flag. a$115 at sojournbags.com.
Historian Neil Harris was browsing the stacks at the University of Chicago’s Regenstein Library years back when he came upon bound issues of the Chicagoan, a little-known literary magazine that from 1926 to 1935 was the second city’s answer to the New Yorker. Harris’s new coffee-table book, The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age, published by the University of Chicago Press, includes a brief history of the magazine and some of its best work, including features, covers, and cartoons, as well as one issue in its entirety. a$65.
