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Friday Flashback: Chicago Landmarks Under Construction

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This is a collection of Chicago's baby photos. See the Adler Planetarium, Navy Pier, the Northern Trust Bank Building, Harper Library, the Mandel Brothers Store and the LaSalle Hotel, then and now. more ›

Old Town School Of Folk Music Debuts New Facility

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This morning the Old Town School of Folk Music debuted its fancy new digs across the street from its other Lincoln Square location, and it started its 55-day celebration of the institution's 55-year anniversary. more ›

Geoffrey Baer Revisits the Chicago Skyline in New WTTW Documentary

Geoffrey Baer Revisits the Chicago Skyline in New WTTW Documentary

WTTW will premiere Chicago’s Loop: A New Walking Tour, the latest in Geoffrey Baer's series of tours, tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. We discussed the new documentary with Baer. more ›

Around Town

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The pipes of Rockerfeller Chapel's E.M. Skinner organ are huge. They kick off today's gallery. more ›

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Look for the cutest photo of two kangaroos at Lincoln Park Zoo in today's gallery. more ›

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We have a nice shot of Farnsworth House at the top of today's gallery. more ›

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Today's galley is rife with street scenes. more ›

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Around Town: Scenes from the Chicago Theatre

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To celebrate the Chicago Theatre's 90th birthday today, we dug deep to find some favorite photos of the interior, detail and the theater's famous marquee. Enjoy. more ›

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Today's gallery is a bit architecture heavy. That isn't a bad thing. more ›

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In honor of Jeanne Gang's MacArthur Fellowship, today's gallery is full of photographs of her architecture and landscape designs. more ›

Architect Gang Wins MacArthur Genius Grant

Architect Gang Wins MacArthur Genius Grant

Gang is best known for Aqua, The 82-story mixed-use skyscraper on Columbus Drive. more ›

Landmarks Illinois Names Top 40 Preservation Projects in Past 40 Years

Landmarks Illinois Names Top 40 Preservation Projects in Past 40 Years

The Landmarks Illinois Preservation Council released its list of the 40 most significant preservation achievements since it formed in 1971. Chicago owes a major debt to the organization. more ›

Big Plans for Old Post Office

Big Plans for Old Post Office

British Developer Bill Davies has no small plans for the Old Chicago Post Office, as revealed in his redevelopment project yesterday. more ›

Lego to Release Robie House Model

Lego to Release Robie House Model

Frank Lloyd Wright's best example of Prairie style architecture is set to receive the LEGO treatment. more ›

Prentice Women's Hospital Added to National Trust for Historic Preservation Endangered List

Prentice Women's Hospital Added to National Trust for Historic Preservation Endangered List

An influential historic preservation think tank adds old Prentice Women's Hospital to its list of America's 11 most endangered buildings. more ›

Board of Trade Building on Market

Board of Trade Building on Market

The Tribune reports today that CME Group, owners of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, has hired brokers to market a sale of the classic Art Deco-style building. more ›

Willis Tower Owners Testing Waters On Putting Building Up For Sale

Willis Tower Owners Testing Waters On Putting Building Up For Sale

The owners of Willis Tower have hired two brokerages to market the nation's tallest skyscraper in the search for an investor or an outright sale of the building. more ›

Chicago Motor Club Building Up for Landmark Status

Chicago Motor Club Building Up for Landmark Status

Today's agenda for the city Landmarks Commission includes a preliminary landmark recommendation hearing for the former Chicago Motor Club building that, if granted, could give the building a new lease on life. more ›

It's New to Us: Holy Name Cathedral and City Methodist Church 360-Degree Virtual Tours

It's New to Us: Holy Name Cathedral and City Methodist Church 360-Degree Virtual Tours

Photographer Joseph Fouts also has a passion for creating high-resolution virtual tours of his photography, which he's parlayed into a business called 360 Comes Alive. Fouts recently contacted us to share with us links for virtual tours he's created of Holy Name Cathedral and City Methodist Church in Gary, IN.The City Methodist Church tour sucked a good portion of our work day away yesterday as we zoomed in and out, enraptured with the detail of Fouts's work. more ›

Prudential Building to Serve as Obama 2K12 HQ

Prudential Building to Serve as Obama 2K12 HQ

The Obama campaign machinery is being tuned up for the President's 2012 re-election campaign. Sun-Times Washington Bureau chief Lynn Sweet reports that Obama will be hosting a series of events across the country in donor cities very lucrative for Democratic fundraising to officially kick off the Obama 2012 campaign. The Obama 2012 team will also call the Prudential Building its headquarters. The new location is steps from Obama's 2008 campaign HQ and overlooks Grant Park, which famously hosted Obamapalooza. more ›

Weekend Diversion: Happy Birthday, Mies!

Weekend Diversion: Happy Birthday, Mies!

In honor of the legendary Chicago architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was born on this day in 1886, here's a delightful (and informative!) ear worm for you: more ›

Tiny White Castle Nominated for Landmark Status

A 150-square foot former White Castle at Cermak and Wabash may be granted landmark status, according to an article in today's Sun-Times. The restaurant has been a gourmet chicken shack for close to 30 years, but owner Dave Gupta (who used to send us press releases for his restaurant as "Chef Luciano") and his son Rocky have restored the building on the southeast corner of the intersection to its full architectural glory. The Commission on Chicago Landmarks proposed the designation earlier this month and the Guptas are in full support of the move. more ›

Recent Findings Show Proposed Clock for Carson Pirie Scott Building

Recent Findings Show Proposed Clock for Carson Pirie Scott Building

Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin reports on a discovery of sketches for a proposed clock that, had they ever been actualized, would have graced the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Building. more ›

Where Was This Car Elevator Located?

Where Was This Car Elevator Located?

The above photo of a car elevator in the Loop during in 1936 has been making the rounds, via facebook, Windy Citizen, and Tumblr sites. It first came to our attention via "Letters of Note" (You remember them? They shared the 1991 letter from Madonna in which she expressed her displeasure with Chicago men.) editor Shaun Usher, who posted this via Twitpic. more ›

More Thawing. More Falling Ice

More Thawing. More Falling Ice

Last week it was Willis Tower where we had to keep an eye out for falling ice. Today, it's the Hancock Center. Streets have been closed around the skyscraper after reports of falling ice. Traffic was shut down on East Delaware Place between Michigan and Wabash. No injuries have been reported thus far. more ›

Falling Ice From Willis Tower Injures Two

The recent thaw has made the "Danger - Falling Ice" signs we see throughout downtown more than just for show. Ice falling from Willis Tower forced the closing of streets around the skyscraper yesterday and injured two people; one of them a paramedic responding to the other person being hit by ice. more ›

Merchandise Mart Up for Sale?

Merchandise Mart Up for Sale?

If you've got an extra $1 billion lying around, then you might be in luck. Chicago's Merchandise Mart, a noted landmark, is rumored to be up for sale. According to Crain's, Merch Mart's future sale has been an idea that has been floating around for some time:

Parent company Vornado Realty Trust has been dropping hints along Wall Street and with potential buyers that it wants to sell the subsidiary, including the fortress-like structure along the Chicago River. The New York real estate investment trust purchased it from the Kennedy family in 1998 for $630 million. Vornado's efforts already have yielded a $1.25-billion offer, but that deal died last month, people familiar with the negotiations say.
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