Happy Halloween!

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Landmarks Commission's Eloquent Requiem to the Building it's About to Destroy

from the Landmarks Commission report When I write about the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, I often make a clear distinction between the tw...

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Emanuel Destroys Prentice

What we pretty much expected all along has now come to pass.   In an article/letter in the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has s...

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A spectacular portrait in darkness and light: Eric Hines's Cityscape Chicago

thanks to Chicago Magazine's Dennis Rodkin for tweeting about this video  Do NOT watch this video here.  Click on it to go to Vimeo, an...

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Frontier Outpost: The Roosevelt Collection and the Future of the Viaduct District

click images for larger view Other than a couple of former sandbars, Chicago is flat, flat, flat.  Even when we raised the city out of the m...

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Chicago Skyscene: Great Cloud Day

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Chicago Streetscene: Before the Fall, Desert Flowers

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Possum Exploded and Made Whole: ROA's Pilsen mural

click images for larger view (recommended) We've written previously about the macabre, spectacular rams mural Belgian street artist ROA...

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Battle for Prentice on Chicago Tonight, 7:00 p.m.

Chicago Tonight , 7:00 tonight (Wednesday)  will have Eddie Arruza moderating a discussion between Christina Moore of the National Trust for...

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Chicago Streetscene: Mashup

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Meet me at the God Box: Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography with Shulze and Windhorst - More for October

It's still not too late to be adding items to the October Calendar of Chicago Architectural Events . On Tuesday, October 23th, 5:30 - 7:...

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Exiled to Indian Boundary: a Monument to Boodle in Old Chicago

click images for larger view   Indian Boundary Park is all about things short in duration but long in memory.  In her excellent book, The C...

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George Solti at 100

Today's 100th anniversary of the birth of George Solti , the long-time music director who brought the Chicago Symphony to worldwide pro...

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Goodbye Daley Bi; Hello Maggie Daley Park - stripping North Grant Park bare

click images for larger view Former Richard M. Daley condemned it as "Nowhere" , the 20 acre park named after his father that he w...

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