As a Chicagoan living in New York, I can say that my current home has many things to recommend about it: top-notch museums, a nice park, many fine former and future Chicagoans.
It’s a large city, and an exciting city, but it is not a beautiful city.
When I bring New Yorkers home to visit, they’re shocked to discover a thriving metropolis with clean air and open beaches.
And, above all, a stunning skyline.
It was nice to read that Donald Trump’s plans for the building that will replace the Sun-Times building have been redesigned to cooperate with our skyline instead of dominate it.
But the price of a glorious skyline is eternal vigilance; as we’ve seen with the Soldier Field fiasco, architecture critic Blair Kamin’s voice alone cannot protect our city aesthetic from profiteering developers.
I hope we’ll all keep watching to see that new developments keep our city livable, beautiful and unique.
It would be too easy for Chicago to become just another New York.
