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Curious City on WBEZ: Making Chicago’s Boystown; Political activism and businesses helped shape the city’s gay neighborhood, but there’s a debate about its future
Curious City: Making Chicago's Boystown, Political activism and businesses helped shape the city's gay neighborhood, but there’s a debate about its future."Jack Floyd came...
WATCH The Fascinating Interview! How the Auditorium Changed Europe with Rolf Achilles and Rich Regan
"This week’s #AudTalk features a conversation between Auditorium CEO Rich Regan and Rolf Achilles, an art historian and historical preservationist who has written and...
WATCH: Ask Geoffrey – The Story Behind the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium on WTTW Chicago
"A one time tree nursery became a bucolic place of rest and recovery for tuberculosis patients on Chicago’s North Side. Geoffrey Baer shares this...
WATCH: A Virtual Tour of the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture in the Humboldt Park Stables
"This year marks 25 years since the flag sculptures were installed above Division Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood."In the nearby park, another landmark...
PRINT: Serhii Chrucky Shoots the James R. Thompson Center for Preservation Chicago
"This structure, the James R. Thompson Center, isn’t even 40 years old. Yet some of Chicago’s elected officials want what was formerly known as...
PRINT: Home is Where the Art Deco Is: Modernist Design Around the Corner from the Chicago Art Deco Society’s Newsletter
"When it comes to Art Deco architecture, especially in the Midwest, one tends to think of the skyscraping commercial edifices and the grand WPA...
PRINT: A Chicago Couple Restores a Spacious Gothic Revival, Inside and Out In Preservation Magazine
"Jay Dandy: We bought the house in June of 2002 and moved in that November. We had been living in a big, Victorian-era house,...
PRINT: Independent Theaters Want You To Keep Going To The Movies on WBEZ Chicago
"Independent movie theaters have faced threats to their business models in the past, but probably didn’t anticipate a global pandemic."Local theaters have hustled to...
WATCH: You Paid For It: Scaffolding In Front Of Landmark City-Owned Building In West Town Has Been There Since 2015 on CBS Chicago 2...
"It’s ugly, it’s been there for years, and you paid for it. The 'it' in question is construction scaffolding that surrounds the old Goldblatt’s...
WATCH: What’s Happening to Chicago’s Neon Signs? on WGN 9 Chicago
"Dylan Thomas once wrote: 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.' He wasn't talking about Chicago, but he could have been when it...