We’re out of town on a family visit. Around noon, I went out for a walk. I got an alert on my phone about some breaking news:a school shootinga few hundred miles away. The only question I have after seeing something like that is not, “How could it happen?” It’s, “How bad...
With the recent publication of the bookEdgar Miller and the Handmade Homehas come renewed appreciation of Miller’s talents and of the central role he played in the birth of Chicago’s Old Town arts colony in the 1920s and 1930s. Often seen as “Chicago’s forgotten Renaissance man,” Mil...
The introduction of the book Taylor Street: Chicago’s Little Italy describes the identity of the neighborhood in the early and mid 20th century as a place of contradictions: “By the 20th century, the community’s duality became clear—Taylor Street was both the home to Mother Cabrini and he...
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In October 1972, a second single from Chicago V, Lamm’s “Dialogue (Part I & II)” with vocals by Kath and Cetera, was released. “Dialogue” became an instant favorite with fans. Guercio, meanwhile, bought a ranch in Colorado and built a recording studio there that he dubbed “Caribo...
elements of the lakefront by the early 1970s. The city restoration project led by Butler began in 1974 and involved a full restoration of the auditorium, a promenade on the north side of the pier, and a solar energy project to heat the buildings on the pier's east end, the book said...
In early 1972, a book called “A Populist Manifesto” The Making of A New Majority was published. Authored by Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield, this book outlined a progressive populist “political alignment” among the many political interests of the day (civil rights, the ecology movement, ...
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Such has been the spread of crime in Chicago, I now find I lock my door as soon as I get in my car; I leave a full space between my car and the car in front of me at stoplights, allowing room to swerve away from any potential carjackers. I don’t check my phone at stopligh...
In early 1972, a book called “A Populist Manifesto” The Making of A New Majority was published. Authored by Jack Newfield and Jeff Greenfield, this book outlined a progressive populist “political alignment” among the many political interests of the day (civil rights, the ecology movement, ...