Showing posts with label Bob Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bob Johnson. Show all posts
Thursday, July 31, 2014

Short Division

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photograph: Bob Johnson (click images for larger view) It stood for over a century, and was gone in an instant. Constructed in 1903, ...
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Sunday, July 06, 2014

Voyeur on the Roof - What was the Art Institute Thinking? And You?

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Say what you will about those blockbuster exhibitions at the Art Institute, the folks behind AIC's marketing have become especially adep...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Model Chicago Engulfed by Water at CAF, plus AIC, Maggie Daley Park: Thursday Updates Edition

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Smokefall production still, courtesy Goodman Theatre As we continue to work on the November calendar, and just in general take a breat...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Activated Virgin

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click images for larger view For a time, rumors circulated that it had all fallen through, the plan to convert the Art Deco Old Dearborn...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

All Quiet on the Wells Street Front

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click images for larger view It's around 8:00 p.m. Sunday. We are still eight hours from the scheduled resumption of Brown and Purp...
Friday, February 15, 2013

It's National Engineers Week! Full day of events for kids at CAF this Sunday

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It's almost here: National Engineers Week , February 1 7 -23, the annual event that bring engineers into the spotlight often hogged by...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Tabula Rasa: Daley Bi - Ready for its Makeover into Maggie Daley Park

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click image for larger view (recommended) Our indefatigable correspondent Bob Johnson provided the above photo of what was, for decades,...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

Jenney's Home Insurance Building lives on - in Lego . Build Your Own Lego City at Crown Hall July 21

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photographs: Bob Johnson William Le Baron Jenney 's Home Insurance Building , often referred to as the world's first true skyscr...
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