7/16/13
We noted a few days ago that the Tribune’s Blair Kamin is back in town. Kamin had quite a bit to say back in...
7/12/13
Blair Kamin, the Tribune’s award-winning architecture critic, has spent the past year at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. He’s apparently back in Chicago and...
9/6/12
The city that’s known for great architecture is fortunate to have a cadre of bloggers who focus on the rich heritage of our built...
8/8/12
Several scaffolds and teams of workmen were hanging from Erie on the Park, 510 W Erie, last week. The building, which was completed 10...
2/15/12
Cicero hasn’t always had a source of pride readily at hand, so when the town recently went 14 months without a street-gang related killing,...
11/11/11
A hat tip to architecture critic Lynn Becker for alerting us to this captivating introduction to Jeanne Gang, the magnetic starchitect who’s reshaping our...
10/12/11
It’s been about 35 years since I first met an enthusiast for the Uptown Theatre and heard tales of its imminent revival and its...
9/26/11
Last week we alerted you that plans were moving forward for the redevelopment of the 920-unit Lathrop Homes, a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) project...
7/22/11
Begin with David Greising’s take at the Chicago News Cooperative on a developer’s plans for Chicago’s long-shuttered main Post Office building: Reclusive British developer...
4/26/11
News of the death last Friday of Ernest A. Grunsfeld III, better known as Tony Grunsfeld, was relayed by the Tribune’s Blair Kamin. Many...
12/1/09
It is a major architectural disappointment, a light-filled upgrade for the underground pedway system and an urban hub whose potential won’t be realized for...