Category: Parks
Release the hounds!
Driving north on Lake Shore Drive at 6:15 p.m. today I noticed that the lakefront path between Oak Street Beach and the North Avenue pedestrian bridge [...]
Millennium Park bean update
Close to three years after it was unveiled, Anish Kapoor's monumental sculpture, Cloud Gate, will be completely open to the public. City officials s [...]
Affordable Washington Park has an interesting past
A while ago we told you how a bunch of developers is getting together to promote the South Shore as the city's hot new affordable neighborhood. But wh [...]
May flowers be in your future
On a brutal day like today it's good to remind yourself that it won't last forever.
Soon your City in a Garden will return to being a city in a gard [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
Today's the day for a treetop canopy climbing adventure. The more earthbound can frolic with turtles and frogs and snakes and such. We know that yo [...]
Sunday, Sunday, the little bastards fun day
We confess. We did it. We stole today's tag line from the old Second City, which never got around to trademarking it.
Winter days are perfect for [...]
Lakeshore East starting to look like a neighborhood
How do you turn a collection of highrises into a community?
Add a park. It seems to be working at Lakeshore East, the new mixed-use development betwe [...]
Millennium Park area gets another condo highrise
Maybe the city needs to designate Millennium Park an actual neighborhood rather than a mere green space, judging by the seismic boom in residential de [...]