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Robie House – the tour ends

Robie House – the tour ends

Tour guide Barry Aldridge of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust finishes A Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie House [...]
Robie House children’s room

Robie House children’s room

A Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie House continues with tour guide Barry Aldridge of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. Some interesting takes [...]
Robie House billiards room and wine cellar

Robie House billiards room and wine cellar

A Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie House continues with tour guide Barry Aldridge of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust. The billiards room was [...]
Robie House kitchen and servants’ quarters

Robie House kitchen and servants’ quarters

Tour guide Barry Aldridge of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust on the kitchen, garage, servants' quarters and more [...]
Robie House dining area – when plywood was new technology

Robie House dining area – when plywood was new technology

A Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie House continues with tour guide Barry Aldridge of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust [...]
Entering Wright’s Robie House – new technology, and termites

Entering Wright’s Robie House – new technology, and termites

Tour guide Barry Aldridge of the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust takes us into the home. [...]
The living room as civics lesson in Wright’s Robie House

The living room as civics lesson in Wright’s Robie House

In this part of A Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie House tour guide Barry Aldridge explains how technology and philosophy are integrated in the main li [...]
Steel and structure in Wright’s Robie House

Steel and structure in Wright’s Robie House

Barry Aldridge, a tour guide for the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust talks about the structure of the home in this part of A Geek's Guide to Wr [...]
Tweens talk Wright at the Robie House

Tweens talk Wright at the Robie House

The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust was kind enough to allow us to shoot some video of this afternoon's sold-out Geek's Guide to Wright's Robie [...]
Tweens talk Wright at the Robie House, Chicago

Tweens talk Wright at the Robie House, Chicago

YoChicago visits this icon of residential architecture and listens to what tween-age girls have to say about it [...]
Your neighborhood gives me the creeps

Your neighborhood gives me the creeps

Take a video tour with Weird Chicago. Pray tell, which neighborhoods give you the creeps? [...]

Residents establish Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance

This should interest a few of you: a new resident group calling itself the Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance has been established to monitor resi [...]

Take a techie's tour of Wright's Robie House

Fans of architect Frank Lloyd Wright can spend part of their Saturday taking a technology-oriented tour of one of Wright's most famous houses. A Geek' [...]
Art, real estate, charity intersect in Logan Square

Art, real estate, charity intersect in Logan Square

The Realtors at Real Living Infinity are taking a new approach to the art of home-selling with an event they're calling ArtHouse 2007. Agents Wes Wal [...]
The CHA's daring experiments

The CHA's daring experiments

Architect Pat FitzGerald, who's involved in a number of the CHA's mixed-income projects, refers to them as "daring experiments." A commenter on thi [...]

Edison Park part of city, too

Yo wants to welcome the Edison Park Chamber of Commerce to our Edison Park journal. Stop by to learn a little about this neighborhood in the northwest [...]

West Humboldt Park development group plans affordable housing

The West Humboldt Park Family & Community Development Council has a plan to keep affordable housing affordable, according to a story in today's Sun-Ti [...]

Bridgeport Village developer claims former Daley aide sought discount prices

Developer Thomas Snitzer alleges in a federal lawsuit that political operatives from Mayor Daley's native 11th ward shut down work on his Bridgeport V [...]
Construction update: Modern Momentum in the Loop

Construction update: Modern Momentum in the Loop

Visitors to the Loop have a new building to oooh and ahhh over -- Booth Hansen's MoMo is only a few floors shy of its full height of 33 stories, and [...]
Marycrest, a drive-by shoot

Marycrest, a drive-by shoot

Get in the car with YoJoe and YoVal for a quick tour of the Marycrest neighborhood on Chicago's southwest side. [...]
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