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Will a historic West Side landmark ever be resurrected?
As an architectural device, the gloryhole facilitates connections in unassuming places. Torn from its substrate, however, it’s less than nothing.
On the West Side of Chicago, Fred Hampton’s assassination was litigated through architectural media.
Had I not been asked to volunteer to help with crowd control, I would be one of the thousands of people in line.
The Rainforest Cafe at North Clark and West Ohio was not just a café or a simulacrum of a rainforest or a slice of service industry purgatory. It was a pocket of manufactured wonder in an increasingly disenchanted city.
History beckons from Michael Reese Hospital’s sole remaining building.
Anna Kornbluh and Morley Musick debate the Obama Presidential Center.
Not only is moving the Sox to a Nebraskan tourists’ idea of the Big City a terrible idea, but Ishbia didn’t even get there first.
How spin, spectacle, and a strong-arm mayor remade the skyline
