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Commissioning one of America`s foremost architectural photographers to shoot details of structures shaped like every letter of the alphabet sounds terribly pointless. Pairing each of the 26 pictures with a...
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EVANSTONIANA: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF EVANSTON AND ITS ARCHITECTURE BY MARGERY BLAIR PERKINS. (CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS, 194 PAGES, $22.50)
The author of this useful, well organized and generously illustrated history had produced only a first draft at the time of her death in 1981. Fortunately, the task of completing...
Helmut Jahn’s State of Illinois Center a ‘spectacular building’
Helmut Jahn `s State of Illinois Center is the most cerebral, the most abstract, yet easily the most spectacular building ever constructed in the Loop. Its interior is no less...
Aug. 20, 1977: Henry B. Clarke mansion — oldest house in Chicago — to become a showplace
This story was originally published in the Chicago Tribune on Aug. 20, 1977: The oldest house in Chicago will soon be lifted over the Jackson Park elevated tracks, moved 32 blocks,...