Chicago’s stone age
Chicago architecture can be divided into two periods: the period of glass and steel we live in now, and the ‘stone age’ preceding it, which lasted from the Great Fire of 1871 (when Chicago swore off...
View ArticleOn Plymouth Court
One of the funny things about the Loop is that it contains lots of streets that have an “out-of-the-way” feel. The northernmost block of Plymouth Court, off Jackson, is this way. It’s a backwater that...
View ArticleWreathed in the glamour of old-time gold
I love it when the Board of Trade Building looks grand and glorious, when it’s wreathed in fog and looks as though Batman could be capering about on its heights. A night like this, and the tower...
View ArticleMy Edwardian girl
The tag read “Victorian-era painting of girl in a mahogany frame with original wavy glass.” Even though I knew the portrait wasn’t a painting but a print, possibly made as recently as the 1970s, still...
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