Author: Leslie

Hello everyone. I hope you all enjoyed wonderful holidays with family and friends, with plenty of time to relax and refuel before starting 2019. Thanks to the many of you…

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.” -Oprah Winfrey It seems appropriate to ring in the new year with the words of a…

By Brent Hoffmann, Class of 2005 “I have my WTTW career thanks to CAF and the river tour,” says Geoffrey Baer. He joined WTTW public television in 1989 as associate…

By Hy Speck, Class of 1995 The Sonder Hotels are coming to Chicago. Sonder is converting several loop buildings into a chain of low priced accommodations. What are the original…

By Rick Lightburn, Class of 2008 Architects have responded creatively to the challenge of planning a campus--not just a school or university, but corporate or other institutions. The Chicago area…

The year’s end simply opens is up to new beginnings—-new paths, new opportunities, new leases on life. Some of our docent colleagues have changed “careers” , changed their status with…

By Ed McDevitt, Class of 2010 The Great Chicago Fire of October 8, 1871. We talk about it on several of our tours, never mind at parties, and, possibly, randomly…

Cynthia Bates, 2016 As a long-time Chicago resident, I always recommend the Chicago Architecture River Cruise to out of town visitors. But I recently took it myself for the first…

By Lisa Ciota, Education Guide, Exhibit Host Myths are clues to the spiritual potentialities of the human life. –Joseph Campbell Between meetings and mad dashes to the store to make…

By Adrienne Lieberman, Class of 2010 The Lake on Fire by Rosellen Brown I had to force myself to read slowly to fully savor this magnificent book. It’s the story of…