Union Station and the Fred Harvey Restaurant
By Joan Johns, Class of 2008 Tour Director, Union Station: Icon of a Great Age Have you been to Union Station recently? Since the black curtain in the Great Hall…
New at the Barry Sears Library “The Women Who Changed Architecture”
Foreword by Beverly Willis, Introduction by Amale Andraos, Edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman, Princeton Architectural Press, 2022 Reviewed by: Bobbi Pinkert, Class of 1999 It’s about time, right? This is…
Kudos, January, 2023
Cynthia Bates 2016 River Cruise November 2022 Dear Architecture Center, I was recently able to take a river cruise with the Chicago Architecture Center, something I had not done in…
Patricia Grund, 2001 – Keeps it Simple
By Brent Hoffmann, 2005 “I’m a simple person,” Pat admitted. “I took a river tour before I became a docent, and the docent threw out the term ‘mullions’. I looked…
Architecture & Design Film Fest
This February 1-5, the CAC will be transforming our galleries into a temporary cineplex and welcoming the New York City-based Architecture & Design Film Festival back to Chicago for the first…
Introducing the 2023 CAC Docent Class
By Donna Gabanski, Class of 1994 On Saturday, January 21, the 2023 docent class began their training. After a welcome from Eleanor Gorski, the class settled in for Henry Binford’s…
Architecture as Atonement
Editor's Note: We hope that this piece will provide food for thought as we approach International Holocaust Remembrance Day next Friday, January 27. by Burt Michaels, Class of 2019 I’ve…
Ross Wirth, Docent Council President
President’s Letter, January 2023: A New Hope
My Fellow Docents – It is an honor and privilege to write my first letter as Docent Council President to this esteemed group! First and foremost a thank you to…
The Seventh Continent: Antarctica
By Jill Tanz, Class of 2003 All photography by the author My husband Bob and I took the trip of a lifetime in January, 2022, to our seventh continent, Antarctica.…
View from The Bridge
Hello from The Bridge! We are the CAC source of news you can use in your role as a CAC docent and volunteer. The Bridge is a product of the…