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Docent Council's July/August meeting was held Monday, July 24, 2023.  This was our first hybrid in-person/Zoom meeting, and a good number of regular attendees and guests from the Class of…

Jim Bartholomew 2008 or Jim Javorcic 1999 River Cruise, July 2023 Jim, our tour guide gave us so much fabulous information about architecture and Chicago history! The 90 mile minute…

by Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 This article is a bit late – Cole already has made himself welcome at Chicago Architecture Center for a couple of months, and many…

All four of these Short Tales evoke strong emotional feelings – comfort, excitement, discouragement, and delight. Diane Wagner, 2005, reminds us that sometimes we provide much more than a building…

Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. By Brent Hoffmann, 2005 & Susan Robertson, 2009 Photographs by the authors Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, scoured the…

by Emily Clott, Class of 2012 Eleanor Gorski, CAC’s new President and CEO, has made change the order of the day. She has been deliberate and thoughtful in re-structuring the…

by Ron Becker, Class of 2019 Beginning in 1979, Chicago’s Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy began to award an annual prize to living architects. The award, funded through…

by Kathy Krepps, Class of 2017 Commemorating Willis Tower’s 50 year milestone includes honoring the innovative engineer who came up with the structural form that defined what was then known…

By Brent Hoffmann, 2005 “In Ames, my hometown, my mother researched and wrote the application that established many of the houses in our neighborhood as Historic Old Town, one of…

Because there are many docents with the same first name, and we can't always tell which one a guest is applauding, we are listing all the docents by that name…