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Home » Promontory Point

Tag: Promontory Point

Posted inCity Life

Bound to the Point

by S. Nicole Lane November 10, 2020August 18, 2021

Tales of the Southside Pod swimmers

Chaka Khan; Jake Austen
Posted inFilm

Artist on Artist: Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins

by Jake Austen August 5, 2014August 18, 2021

Chaka Khan talks to Jake Austen of the Goblins and Chic-a-Go-Go.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago doesn’t have to rubber-stamp the Lucas Museum

by Ben Joravsky June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

Just because Mayor Rahm wants to put the George Lucas museum on lakefront land doesn’t mean you, the people, have to let him do it.

Posted inBlogs

Daddy mayors: Protecting Chicago

by Ben Joravsky August 22, 2013August 19, 2021

If Mayor Daley treated Promontory Point like Mayor Rahm treated La Casita, George Lucas and Mellody Hobson couldn’t have been married there.

Greg Lane on the boiler of the Silver Spray
Posted inNews & Politics

An endangered piece of history beneath Lake Michigan’s surface

by Julia Thiel February 27, 2013August 19, 2021

An endangered piece of history beneath Lake Michigan’s surface: the Silver Spray shipwreck

Posted inBlogs

How I won the marathon*

by Steve Bogira October 3, 2012August 19, 2021

My record in the Chicago marathon didn’t last

Art Institute of Chicago, June 11 / Matt Vanderzalm
Posted inArts & Culture

1,000 Words

by Chicago Reader December 30, 2010August 19, 2021

The Reader‘s fourth annual photo issue

Jackson Park, with the Museum of Science and Industry in the background
Posted inArts & Culture

Hyde Park & Kenwood Issue: Parks & Rec

by Kevin Warwick March 4, 2010August 19, 2021

Promontory Point, Jackson Park, and more

Posted inBlogs

Obama and Promontory Point

by Ben Joravsky January 26, 2007August 19, 2021

With Barack Obama’s focus elsewhere, could Promontory Point become another Meigs Field?

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