Please Read – Information re : Phase 5 and the CAC
Dear Docents, Exhibit Hosts, Education Guides, and Guest Services Volunteers – Today (June 11), the City of Chicago will fully re-open lifting most COVID restrictions. But what does this mean…
Launching the River Cruise
This week we are premiering the second episode in our 50th anniversary video series celebrating the “Year of the Docent.” . Lance Friedmann, co-director of the Architecture River Cruise, hosts…
Tours – Docents, Take a Bow!
By Emily Clott, Class of 2012 Tours - CAC has lots of them. How do they come about? Who writes them? Who? Docents, of course. At this 50-year mark, let’s…
Tour Trivia
By Jill Carlson, Class of 2013 As life slowly gets back to normal and tours are added to the calendar, test your knowledge and memory by answering these tour…
Beam Me Up, Scotty
By Lisa Ciota, Education Guide, Class of 2021 Yes, Scotty, beam Helmut Jahn up to the pantheon of great architects who shaped our spaces, influenced our places, and called Chicago…
Architect Art Gensler – An Appreciation
By Leslie Clark Lewis, Class of 2009 We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the death of architect Art Gensler, who passed away on May 10, 2021 at…
Looking Back to the 1990s
By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 It was the era of eating stuffed crust pizza, focaccia, molten lava cake, and Chinese chicken salad. Lunchables, Eggo waffles, and pizza rolls were…
Banking on Perfection – Fullerton State Bank Building
By Steven Redfield, Class of 2019 Editor’s note: Steve's story originally appeared in CAC@Home. Docents and volunteers contributed twenty stories to CAC@Home last year. In case you missed them the…
Bob Carr, Exhibit Host – A Career in Communications
By Brent Hoffmann, Class of 2005 Bob Carr’s interest in architecture long predates his service with CAC as an exhibit host. “When I worked at the Chicago Tribune, I got…
In Their Own Words – Henry Kuehn, Class of 1974
Problems with the Highlights By Bus tour started immediately: Most of my life’s “strange happenings” experiences have involved buses. On a Highlights by Bus tour, for example, our bus was…
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