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PHOTOS: Architecture For The City Bird

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington | Posted 12.29.2011 | Arts
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Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington

Architect to the urban aviary set, Street Artist XAM is one rare bird. Averaging one per week over the last year, the California born former graffiti ...

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Off Target? Superstore To Move Into Historic Downtown Building

Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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An iconic building in the heart of downtown Chicago is soon to be occupied by a Target. The former Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company store on the corn...

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On 'Ruin Porn'

Ian Ference | Posted 05.26.2011 | Arts
Read More: Photography, History, Art, Urban Decay, Industrial Archaeology, Art History, Detroit, Ruins, Historic Preservation, Preservation, Art Theory, Ruin Porn, Richard Nickel, Urban Ruins, Modern Ruins, John Patrick Leary, Louis Sullivan, Detroitism, Arts News
Ian Ference

John Patrick Leary's primary mistake in his essay on "Detroitism" is to assume that all photographers who concentrate on modern ruins are Larry Flynts.

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Adler, Sullivan and Nickel

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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J. Michael Welton

A new book from the University of Chicago Press chronicles the work of three artists from that city whose courageous work intertwined from the late 19th century to the middle of the 20th.

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Louis W. Sullivan, Former Bush HHS Secretary, Supports Reform

msn.com | Athena Jones | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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The White House is distributing a letter from former President George H. W. Bush's Health and Human Services Secretary, Louis W. Sullivan, expressing ...

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Louis Sullivan Backs Health Bill: We Need To Come Together

ABC News | Jake Tapper | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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"We need to come together towards the middle and this is what the Baucus bill represents," said the former Secretary of the Department of Health and H...

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Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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Martin Nolan

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

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'Lost' Louis Sullivan Storefront Found

Chicago Tribune | Blair Kamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
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The legacy of Louis Sullivan, poet of the skyscraper, has taken so many hits lately that you'd think Tony Soprano had a contract to rub out the man's ...

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