Got a buck? Why not spend it on a house? A historic home in Glenview is on the market, and anyone who wants it can have it for $1 -- as long as the...
Posted 05.25.2011
For months, Chicago magazine has been running "Top 40" lists to celebrate their 40th anniversary and highlight the best Chicago films, music, art and ...
The A.V. Club Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011
Last week, the Chicago Plan Commission approved the Burnham Memorial, a privately funded $5 million tribute to architect Daniel Burnham. The memorial ...
Andy Shaw | Posted 05.25.2011
With or without Daley at the helm, it's time to make some other big plans that have the power to stir all of our souls.
Henry Henderson | Posted 05.25.2011
Our state's response to the Asian Carp crisis has been spineless politicking, obstruction, and a concerted effort to delay a real solution. It is all that is wrong with Illinois politics in a nutshell.
Huffington Post | Tim Taliaferro | Posted 05.25.2011
U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley took a page from David Letterman Tuesday night, delivering a Top Ten list from the floor of Congress of his "Reasons Chicago is...
Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago architect David Woodhouse, who shaped the visitor pavilions at Buckingham Fountain, was named the winner Wednesday of a controversial design c...
Henry Henderson | Posted 05.25.2011
While the city and residents have embraced the river, the governmental agency responsible for the waterway continues to turn its back to the river and consider it an open sewer.
Chicago Public Radio | Shawn Allee | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicago's lakefront is having a birthday of sorts. On July 4, 1909, architect Daniel Burnham unveiled a plan for continuous park space up and down the...
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Chicagoans got their first glimpse late Tuesday of the two temporary pavilions designed by internally-celebrated architects that will setup shop in Mi...
Howard Wolinsky | Posted 05.25.2011
The clubs played a role in shaping the city of Chicago over the past 140 years, helping transform a rough-and-tumble prairie town to a sophisticated and still rough-and-tumble world city.
Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 05.25.2011
I am both happy and horrified that some well-meaning people want to a build a lakefront memorial to Daniel Burnham, the architect and urban planner wh...
Kenneth Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011
Let us hope that President-elect Obama continues to inspire the American people to forgo divisiveness and to instead unite to make the country better for all.
Chicago Tribune | Patrick T. Reardon | Posted 05.25.2011
Daniel Burnham's exhortation "Make no little plans" doesn't appear in his Plan of Chicago, but that 1909 document, called the beginning of modern urba...
Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 05.25.2011
The high-powered committee marking the 100th anniversary of architect Daniel Burnham's influential Plan of Chicago on Thursday will announce events de...
Lynn Becker | Posted 05.25.2011
With the airlines apparently limitless contempt for their passengers driving more and more travelers into Amtrak's arms, the importance of inter-city rail is finally shaking free from decades of Reagan-styled abuse and ridicule.
TribLocal | on 8/26/10 at 05:11 PM, | Posted 05.25.2011