Short Division

photograph: Bob Johnson (click images for larger view) It stood for over a century, and was gone in an instant. Constructed in 1903, the Eas...

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Finding Jane's Place at Water Tower Park

click images for larger view The official name - Jame M. Byrne Plaza - while appropriate to the office that brought her fame, is far too for...

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What's red and blue and on a mezzanine? CTA's new Division and LaSalle entrance debuts

click images for larger view If you encounter it in the just the right place, you might feel you've fallen into the blood elevator scene...

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Firewood Mountain, and other Scenes from a Saturday walk through Chicago's Near Northwest side

Subway Aurora Borealis Chinese Finger Trap, Claes Oldenberg style (click images for larger view) Goose Island geese Submerged dock (more gee...

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Summer in the City: The Bride Wore White; the Bagpiper Plaid

click images for larger view It's the kind of thing you encounter in a city big enough to serve as backdrop to the theater of life.  It ...

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Mr. Trump, meet Mr. Loew

click images for larger view And no, there is no Mr. Loews, but there was a Mr. Loew - Marcus Loew, to be exact - the source of all things L...

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Gehry's Web - On its 10th Anniversary, How the visual music of Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion binds together Millennium Park and the City around It.

click images for larger view In the early 1930's, Chicago built a bandshell in Grant Park just north of the Field Museum.  Its scalloped...

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