Trudging east on Randolph toward the Siskel Center on a gloomy, COVID-depopulated early evening last week, I heard something that stopped me in my tracks: “Mom, mom, what’s that building?” I turned to see the source. A boy of ten or so was pulling at his mother’s arm as they walked south on Clark. With […]
Tag: James R. Thompson Center
Posted inNews & Politics
Helmut Jahn is gone, and the Thompson Center is for sale
Can we save his most important Chicago building?
Posted inArts & Culture
Chicago’s seven “most endangered” buildings
Preservation Chicago releases its 2020 list.
Posted inNews & Politics
Objection!
Who needs Facebook and Russian trolls when Illinois election laws sow plenty of bad faith?
Posted inBlogs
What to expect at the new Chicago Architecture Center
The exhibits weren’t fully installed when I dropped in to preview the new home of the Chicago Architecture Center (formerly the Chicago Architecture Foundation) last week, but on a return visit this week everything was up and running. The center, now in a two-story space in a riverfront Mies van der Rohe building at 111 […]
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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.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Amazon won’t save the Thompson Center, but Nathan Eddy might
The Berlin-based documentary filmmaker hopes to rescue a building in danger of destruction.
Posted inBest of Chicago
Best of Chicago 2016
The 31 reasons to love Chicago right now—plus, everything from the city’s best pizza to the best person to follow on Twitter
Posted inBest of Chicago
The Thompson Center is Chicago’s endangered, postmodern Pantheon
If Governor Rauner has his way, Helmut Jahn’s remarkable creation will be a thing of the past.
Posted inBlogs
Rauner, Tribune—make a deal!
Here’s an idea: State government and the paper should swap homes.
Posted inBlogs
The fatal attraction of the James R. Thompson Center
Another suicide at the James R. Thompson Center