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By Bobbi Pinkert, Class of 1999 Co-Tour Director Hotel Boom “No one ever sets out to build an historic building”, states Paul Alessandro, partner at Hartshorne Plunkard, the restoration architect…

By John Perrecone, Education Guide Did you know the Michigan Avenue’s DuSable bridge was the country’s first double-leaf, double-deck, fixed counterweight trunnion bascule bridge? Were you aware that a mere…

By Brent Hoffmann, 2005 Where’s Joan? She could be leading a tour in Chicago. Or in Colorado. She’s a bi-docental commuter, a docent twice-over. Joan Winstein leads tours in Denver…

Jeff Edstrom, 1999 We coordinated a visit to a professional tenant of the Monadnock Building, with the CAC walking tour of the building on 2/14/2020. The CAC docent, Jeff, was…

By Tom Carmichael, Class of 2007 Editor's note: This article recently appeared on The Bridge in two parts. We present it here in one part for your convenience.  Part 1: The…

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 Much of what you see hits you like a punch in the gut. Exhibits bring to life what you learned in history books or…

Hello! I have always thought of February as the “dog days of winter.” (No offense meant to dogs, for those who know me well, I am very much a dog…

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 Living in an historic building -- University Commons, the residential rebirth of the former produce market in the West Loop -- only heightens CAC's…

By Steve Redfield, Class of 2019 Book Review, The Politics of Place: A History of Zoning in Chicago, Joseph Schwieterman and Dana Caspall, 2006. When discussing Chicago's architecture, we routinely…