January 2024 Newsletter
WBEZ Chicago: Nestled between barbershops and vacant buildings, storefront churches are Chicago fixtures
"Drive down Division St. in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood, and you’ll pass storefront after storefront with names like 'Christ Resurrection Missionary Baptist Church' and 'Old...
WBEZ Chicago: What’s That Building? Chicago Buildings Housing Migrants
"In the past 16 months, at least 29,000 migrants have arrived in Chicago from Texas on buses, airplanes and Metra trains."Providing shelter has been...
Daily Southtown: South Side shop still sets stones from Indiana that fostered Chicago’s ‘White City’ style
"The rocks embedded in the exterior of Chicago’s Tribune Tower famously were collected by newspaper correspondents on assignment in far flung locales."The nearly 150...
Block Club Chicago: Austin, Roseland And Humboldt Park First To Participate In Renewed Historical Marker Project
"Three communities of color will be the first involved in a renewed citywide art project highlighting important people, events and locations in the city’s...
The Newberry: Harold Lucas: A Bronzeville Historian’s Lasting Kinship
"Last summer, I interned with the Modern Manuscripts and Archives Team helping to organize the documents of the late Harold Lucas (1942-2022). This collection...
National Trust for Historic Preservation: Stroll Through 7 Sites of Jazz History in Chicago
"From 1923 to World War II, as the Great Migration brought Black people from the Deep South to the South Side, Chicago became the...
WBEZ Chicago: Route 66 was ‘a microcosm of America.’ Now, preservationists want to collect its stories.
"'Get your kicks on Route 66,' Nat King Cole famously sang in 1946 about one of the United States’ first highways. The iconic road,...
Chicago Magazine: “Accelerate Hard as You Can” For a Blues Brothers stunt driver, the thrill of the chase was only part of the fun
"It was the late spring of 1979, and I’d recently left my job selling high-line cars at Loeber Motors on Clark Street, a couple...
Chicago YIMBY: Lost Legends #10: The Masonic Temple Building In The Loop
"In this edition of the “Lost Legends” series, we delve into the history of The Loop‘s Masonic Temple Building, which stood tall from 1892...
Richard H. Driehaus Museum Presents “Sif Itona Westerberg: Twin Flame, Double Ruin”
Richard H. Driehaus Museum Presents
"Sif Itona Westerberg: Twin Flame, Double Ruin"
February 16 to April 14"Sif Itona Westerberg: Twin Flame, Double Ruin is the first...