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WTTW Chicago: Chicago Architecture Critics Team Up to Highlight Inequities, Explore Solutions
Who Is the City For? Architecture, Equity, and the Public Realm in Chicago
by Blair Kamin with photography by Lee Bey"A vividly illustrated collaboration between...
Bloomberg CityLab: One Nation, Under Renovation
"In late 2019, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a landmark investment in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Invest South/West would direct $1.4 billion...
Block Club Chicago: A Sociologist Photographed 100 Chicago Buildings Just Before They Were Torn Down. What Happened To The Sites 10 Years Later?
"A historical two-flat in North Lawndale is now a vacant lot. So is a former check cashing store in Englewood. Three homes in Lincoln...
SUN-TIMES EDITORIAL: Take the Tiger Woods South Side Golf Course Off the Table (Chicago 7 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 & 2021)
"It’s time to give up on the moribund plan for a professional-caliber South Side golf course, stuff it into the golf bag along with...
Chicago Tribune: After Rejecting Lakeside Center Casino Proposal, McCormick Place Seeks to Reimagine Lakeside Center
"Six months after rejecting a plan to turn Lakeside Center into the Chicago casino, McCormick Place is looking to redevelop all or part of...
Chicago Sun-Times: Renewing LaSalle Street
"City government officials, real estate owners, architects and planners have lately linked arms around a common concern: The Loop’s LaSalle Street corridor needs help....
Block Club Chicago: The Google Effect? Experts Say Tech Giant’s Thompson Center Move Could Bring More Residents Downtown
"The $105 million sale of the Thompson Center to Google has the potential to restructure the Loop by bringing in more residents — and,...
Op-Ed: Google, save our Sbarro! Thompson Center’s food court sums up what’s great about this public space
"Think Illinois politics is weird? Last Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker urged tech giant Google before a packed crowd at the live recording of the...
Chicago Tribune: ‘Capturing Louis Sullivan’ at Driehaus Museum: 50 years after Richard Nickel’s death, his photographs still haunt and inspire
"Richard Nickel was nothing if not a man of his word."'I’m afraid our days of adventuring, salvaging, avoiding the cops, etc. in the cause...
WTTW Chicago: Ask Geoffrey, The Story of Hyde Park’s Rosalie Villas
"A tucked-away street on the city's South Side is a time capsule from the days before the neighborhood was even part of Chicago."Geoffrey Baer...