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Friday, March 06, 2026

When a Museum Devours its Own: The Mortal Threat to Adler & Sullivan's Stock Exchange Trading Room

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Eric Allix Rogers photo, courtesy Preservation Chicago Here's the thing. Great art museums are both amazing treasures and amoral empire...

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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

It's Personal: Two Macabre Dances, a Half Century Apart

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Steppenwolf Theatre is in the midst of an extended run of " The Dance of Death ", August Strindberg's astringent 1900 play abo...

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Amazon Go, he dead. The Future, R.I.P.

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"I spent 53 minutes in Amazon Go and saw the future of retail ." -Matt McFarland, CNN Business. That was in 2018, when t...

Wednesday, January 14, 2026

An Annex That's Anything but Secondary: The Chicago Architecture Biennial Reanimates Dead Retail at 840 North Michigan

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One Point Perspective Study No. 2, Luftwerk, photo Pablo Gerson, courtesy CAB No one’s writing about it, but it's an absolute trip. When...

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