What kind of God allows a church to burn down on Good Friday? That’s the question that came to mind when the 130-year-old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church at Stewart and 63rd Street went up in flames earlier this month, followed by a familiar answer: the same god that has allowed slavery, Holocaust, plague, war, and […]
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Thompson Center survival is glad tidings
Everybody knows, especially at this season of the year, it’s a bad idea to look a gift horse in the mouth. But what if he opens it? What if he flashes you a great big horsey smile? And you just can’t look away fast enough? I’m asking because we got a wonderful gift last week, […]
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The verdict on Chicago’s endangered Thompson Center is imminent
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 […]
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Helmut Jahn is gone, and the Thompson Center is for sale
Can we save his most important Chicago building?
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Is this library politics?
A new building filled with social service and education amenities at Altgeld Gardens is a test case for the limits of design and architecture.
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‘East-coasters butt out’ and more from the wildcat Obama Presidential Center debate
An emotionally symposium at the University of Chicago this week brought out many opinions but few solutions.
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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.
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Jackson Park, 20th-century public sculpture show up on Preservation Chicago’s annual Seven Most Endangered Buildings list
Preservation Chicago’s 2017 list of endangered structures also includes the Union Station Power House and Altgeld Gardens.
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Theatre Historical Society plans move to Pittsburgh, members say it’s been hijacked
The museum has been housed above Elmhurst’s York Theatre since 1991.
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Tear down McCormick Place East for the Lucas Museum? Not so fast
Rahm Emanuel’s new idea for the Lucas Museum will run into its own objections.
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A vanity plate for the Chicago Cultural Center?
Do we need another building named for a Daley? A new City Council proposal would give us one.
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Curtains for the Uptown Hull House Center theater
An 11th-hour effort fails to save the longtime home of Organic and Black Ensemble theater companies.
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Jonathan Fine out at Preservation Chicago
The nonprofit’s executive director since 2001 departs.