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Check out the really neat website we did for the Off the Street Club here. (If you can't make it to Pioneer Court, there's a place on the website to donate, too.)
The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to announce the appointment of Alison Fisher as the Harold and Margot Schiff Assistant Curator of Architecture in the Department of Architecture and Design . Ms. Fisher, who arrived at the museum in August 2009, will join Joseph Rosa, the John H. Bryan Chair of Architecture and Design, and Zoë Ryan, the Neville Bryan Curator of Design, in organizing exhibitions, conducting research, and managing acquisitions for the museum's extensive collections of architecture and design. Ms. Fisher will focus on the Art Institute's historic architecture holdings from 1850 to 1945, thus overseeing the architectural drawings, models, and archives of many of America's most important architects, such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Burnham, and Louis Sullivan.Fisher curated a very fine recent exhibition at the Block Museum in Evanston, Marion Mahony Griffin: Drawing the Form of Nature, with a good catalogue, which recent shows at the AIC have been sorely lacking. Let's hope.
The Lifetime Achievement Award honors an individual whose achievements throughout his or her lifetime exemplify personal and professional contributions to the real estate industry and to the community.Details here.
(via Landmarks Illinois on Vimeo.)
Daley was chosen by Time in its April 25, 2005 issue as the best out of five mayors of large cities in the United States, and characterized as having "imperial" style and power. He has presided over such successes as the resurgence in tourism, the modernization of the Chicago Transit Authority, the mayoral takeover of the Chicago Public Schools, the construction of Millennium Park, increased environmental efforts and the rapid development of the city's North Side, as well as the near South and West sides. He took over 70% of the mayoral vote in 1999, 2003, and 2007, without significant opposition.