This headline sure got your attention, didn’t it? What gives?
Well, it’s one of the predictions that was submitted in response to our request last week for Prophecies and Prognostications for 2046.
Here’s the deal: Since our celebration of the past is drawing to a close, we’d like to turn our collective attention to our future. When our 75th anniversary arrives in 2046, what will we be celebrating? Who will we celebrate? What will we have achieved? Where will CAC stand in the pantheon of Chicago cultural institutions? Will we still be giving walking tours? River tours? Neighborhood tours? What will our training program look like? Will the Center still be located on Wacker Drive? What will be new and different about Chicago? Let’s create a group prophecy and a time capsule to be opened at that milestone.
We need your help! Please put your inhibitions aside and get creative with the most interesting and far out predictions you can divine. Feel free to name names and share details, all in good humor and good fun, of course. Here are two more examples:
Tom Drebenstedt will still be giving tours of bungalows and Galewood.
Amelia Duda is beginning her new position as Manager of Volunteer Engagement, taking the reins from mom, Caroline Duda, who is retiring after serving in the position for over 30 years.
Please submit your prophecies to me at em********@ya***.com by September 6. That gives you more than a week to come up with fun ideas. We’ll select the best of the lot and print them in The Bridge. Don’t make me nag you…I know how creative you all can be, so have at it, and let your imagination run wild. I can’t wait to see what you think the future holds!
Emily Clott