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- Arts & Culture, Architecture Sep 18, 2019
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South-side champion
Writer-photographer Lee Bey’s new book Southern Exposure showcases architectural masterworks on the typically neglected south and west sides.
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Jul 3, 2019
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Eviction is more than just a bureaucratic process
An architecture critic and a housing reporter visit a new exhibition in Milwaukee.
- Arts & Culture, Architecture Mar 22, 2019
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Survival of the starter home
Could a design contest help replenish Chicago’s affordable housing stock?
- Arts & Culture, Dance Oct 31, 2018
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Hedwig Dances assembles a Bauhaus-inspired Futura
The contemporary troupe explores the architecture of dance.
- Arts & Culture, Travel May 30, 2018
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The City Museum in Saint Louis will do anything—even risk eternal damnation—to build its Louis Sullivan collection
The Chicago School is alive and well—300 miles south of the city.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2018
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Jackson Park and Thompson Center lead Preservation Chicago's annual list of the city's seven most-endangered architectural treasures
Jackson Park is the designated site of the Obama Presidential Library.
- News & Politics, Feature Jan 30, 2018
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Are tiny houses a solution to homelessness in Chicago?
The push for a small answer to a massive problem
- Arts & Culture, Worst of Chicago Dec 21, 2017
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Bored of Chicago’s newer buildings? Blame split-face concrete block.
During the last building boom, developers favored the blocks for easy, predictable, and cheap construction.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2017
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The MLB is investigating domestic abuse allegations against Cubs shortstop Addison Russell, and other Chicago news
Also, actor Stacy Keach speaks after his onstage heart attack.
- Columns & Opinion, On Transportation Feb 1, 2017
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How would plans to replace the Thompson Center impact service at Clark/Lake?
Advocates want guarantees that transit access will be preserved.
- News & Politics, Chicagoans Jan 16, 2017
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After his proposal to block Trump Tower with pig balloons, this architect received ‘brutally abusive’ calls
"We were told to shove the pigs any number of ways," says Jeffrey Roberts of Chicago firm New World Design Ltd.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 1, 2016
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Report: Chicago police are shooting fewer civilians since the Laquan McDonald video release, and other news
Also, a local start-up wants to help Americans make informed decisions on their ballots before they vote.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 28, 2016
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A week after its completion, the new leg of the Riverwalk is almost done
A jaunt down the newly opened but not quite finished stretch from LaSalle Street to Wolf Point.
- News & Politics, Feature Oct 5, 2016
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The Goldberg variation: High-rise public housing that works
Bertrand Goldberg’s Hilliard Homes opened as a model community in 1966. It still is today.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 14, 2016
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University of Chicago named the country's third-best school, and other news
Also, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos is being touted by some as a possible 2018 Democratic candidate for governor.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2016
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Looming lawsuit has Rahm trying to give 1.5 million drivers a chance to challenge red-light and speeding tickets, and other Chicago news
Also, Chance the Rapper takes Magnificent Coloring Day festival tickets back from scalpers and sells them to real fans.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2016
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CPD chief: We need to hold repeat gun offenders accountable, and other Chicago news
Also, the Vista Tower is becoming a reality as workers start to prep the site.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 1, 2016
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Police union head: There's 'an Orlando every month in Chicago, and no one seems to raise an eyebrow,' and other news
Also, the nearly broke Chicago Public Schools has made a $657 million teachers' pension payment.
- Best of Chicago, Reasons to love Chicago Jun 23, 2016
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Chicago’s North Shore fuels architecture fantasies
The curving streets of the affluent north suburbs are lined with midcentury-modern marvels and the locations of John Hughes movies.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Mar 31, 2016
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John Macsai's architecture by accident
Forget the Hancock: The overlooked jewels of Chicago's skyline have one man in common.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 13, 2015
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New draw for Architecture Biennial: See the Thompson Center before we tear it down
Illinois governor Bruce Rauner is putting the Helmut Jahn-designed Thompson Center up for sale and demolition.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 24, 2015
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The Shakers' strikingly modern design arrives in Chicago
Three new exhibits at the Loyola University Museum of Art showcase art, furniture, and other artifacts originally created in the 19th century by the celibate sect.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 7, 2014
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An open letter to the Lucas Museum
Not just pictures: the Lucas Museum design has its own text.
- Columns & Opinion, On Culture Jul 29, 2014
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Meet the city's new arts initiatives—and add your two cents' worth
Here come the Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Fifth Star Awards.
- Best of Chicago, Arts & Culture Jun 25, 2014
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Best Theater Lobby That Makes You Wish Intermission Would Never End
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