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Sunday, August 02, 2026

Auras and Materialities: Chicago's Uptown Theatre, where a legendary past confronts an uncertain future.

It would have been better had I been alone, running through the great castle-like lobby like Belle through the Beast's haunted corridor...

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Tales of the City: The Little Building the Big Developer Couldn't Buy - is its Disgorged Moon Returning to Orbit?

Guarda ah veramente é una luna bella ma guardate ma non giù su guardate su ehi. Why do you make me wait? Come on! Come on! - Grandpa Ca...

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Chicago's Aragon Ballroom: a Look Inside

Two brothers - the Karzas brothers - two spectacular Chicago ballrooms, one north side, one south, spectacular evocations of Jazz Age exube...

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Lynn Becker: . . . writings on architecture have appeared in the Chicago Reader, Metropolis Magazine, the Harvard Design Magazine, and the backs of discarded gum wrappers. We reserve the right to delete posts that we judge spamatory, defamatory or unnecessarily obscene. If you prefer to berate me personally, email me here.

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