Confession: When I was a teenager, I asked for a four-drawer black file cabinet for my birthday. There’s just something alluring about putting order to your paper, as if your life will follow.

The sculpture “File Under So. Co., Waiting For…” — better known as the World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet — has towered over Burlington’s Flynn Avenue for more than 15 years. Across the street from the ...

One of my most prized possessions is an antique wooden filing cabinet that belonged to my great grandfather. He used it to keep patients’ records (he was a doctor here in Chicago); I use it to store ...

But while I was at the hardware store last week, I decided to pick up a gallon of Strypeeze (not to be confused with an alternative spelling of "striptease," although I did a double-take the first ...