During the last building boom, developers favored the blocks for easy, predictable, and cheap construction.
Author Archives: Lee Bey
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Crime Story is quintessential Chicago television
The short-lived 1980s police drama was created by Michael Mann and shot largely in Chicago.
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If you build it, they will destroy it
A new book by Daniel M. Abramson breaks down how innumerable architectural marvels were unnecessarily demolished to make way for profitable new construction.
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Turning McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center into the Lucas Museum could be the boldest adaptive reuse project on the planet
George Lucas has the chance to save a piece of Chicago’s modernist architecture that deserves landmark status.
