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Respected urban planner is new Landmarks leader
Chicago Tribune criticThe statewide advocacy group that strives to preserve Illinois' architectural past has named a new leader: Jim Peters, a widely respected urban planner and academic who used to run the City of Chicago's landmarks commission. Peters, 56, takes over...Tags: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Daniel Burnham, Chicago Humanities Festival, Soldier Field, Architecture
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Curiosity, humor defined doctor
Chicago Tribune reporterDr. Joel F. Sammet, a Chicago pioneer in the field of radiology, had an insatiable curiosity about how the body works—and a funny bone that colleagues, patients and friends adored. "There wasn't a person who didn't like my father," daughter Trudy...Tags: Medical Specialization, Curiosities, Cornell University, Colleges and Universities, Michael Reese
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Cultural events that shaped '68
LITERATURE "Myra Breckinridge" by Gore Vidal. The clever novel (disguised as a diary) initially derided as pornography ends up making eloquent sport of sex and gender. Also vital to 1968 and beyond: "Soul on Ice" by Eldridge Cleaver. An angry, powerful...Tags: Dance, Eldridge Cleaver, Tom Wolfe, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Hancock
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Best-dressed home? Clinton Kelly's fixer-upper goes fab
Chicago Tribune newspapersThe circa 1969 fixer-upper in Connecticut's wooded Litchfield Hills never had a chance. It couldn't duck the discriminating eye of its new owner, Clinton Kelly, co-host of TLC's hit reality show "What Not To Wear." Shabby "Green Monster"-colored...Tags: Building Material, Litchfield (Litchfield, Connecticut), Long Island, Andy Warhol, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Eero Saarinen's law school at the U. of C. expertly recycled
Chicago Tribune criticSure, Barack Obama taught there from 1992 to 2004. But there's another reason to check out the University of Chicago Law School, especially if you love mid-century modernism. The school has quietly completed a skillful renovation and expansion of its...Tags: Building Material, Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama, Hospitals and Clinics, Constitutional Issues
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Chief librarian inspired Skokie library renewal
Tribune reporterIn the first of her 29 years as Skokie's chief librarian, Mary Radmacher spoke loudly by removing the "SILENCE" sign that greeted visitors to what was then a storefront facility. That set the tone for her tenure—while the library would remain a...Tags: Skokie, Hunting, Rogers Park, Lakeview, Death and Dying
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Walter A. Netsch Jr., 88; Chicago architect whose complex designs rebelled at glass-box buildings of the 1950s
From Times Wire ServicesWalter A. Netsch Jr., a prominent Chicago architect who designed the Cadet Chapel at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., has died. He was 88. Netsch died of pneumonia Sunday at his Chicago home, said his wife, Dawn Clark Netsch. Walter...Tags: Retirement, Inland Steel Company, Political Candidates, Metal and Mineral, Architecture
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Modern design takes unlikely form
Tribune NewspapersBefore construction had wrapped on Vanessa Choy and Andrew Wong's house in Studio City, a suburb in the San Fernando Valley of California, the rumors had started swirling. The couple were building a halfway house for addicts, passersby speculated. The...Tags: Building Material, Studio City, San Fernando, The Farmhouse, Clothing and Textiles Industry
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Design of Cermak-Chinatown Red Line station offered little protection from crashing truck
Tribune reporterThe Cermak-Chinatown station was designed 40 years ago to offer CTA rail passengers an uncluttered feeling with a steel-and-glass enclosure rather than a traditional station house. The open arrangement, and the lack of barricades at sidewalk level for...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Vehicles, Employees, Transportation
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Investment money 'resting,' but will be wake up when market improves
Wrightwood Capital CEO Bruce Cohen, who believes commercial real estate experts are deep in the dark, is surprisingly upbeat about an industry that seems to be at least a little paralyzed. "There is absolute clarity and certainty that no one knows what...Tags: Chicago Commercial Real Estate, Engineering, Prime Group Realty Trust, Chicago River, Sales
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