Fireplace & Jazz with a Live Chicago Clock

Hearth as heavy machinery — a serious Midwestern fire against the lake wind, Central Time keeping watch.

In Chicago a fireplace is not decor, it's a counterargument. When the wind comes off the lake with January intentions, the bungalow-belt hearth earns its keep the old way — loaded properly, burning steadily, radiating the kind of heat that makes weather personal.

This station burns accordingly: a fuller fire than our coastal rooms, logs shifting with real weight, wind occasionally auditioning at the windows and losing. Warm jazz saxophone keeps the room company under the Central-time clock.

For polar-vortex evenings, February reading campaigns, and anyone whose radiator could use the moral support.