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This is the final Short Tales for 2024. To continue this feature in 2025, we need your help. All of us---docents, exhibit hosts, education guides, guest services---have stories that have…

Capturing All-Docent Day & Open House Chicago This month, our docent photographers have captured the excitement of All-Docent Day and Open House Chicago through their lenses. From unique architectural perspectives,…

It has been an intense few weeks since the national election, I’m still reeling and don’t have the answers. I want to thank Eleanor for hosting a Townhall to provide…

By Leslie Clark Lewis, Class of 2009 After breakfast and Docent Council President Ross Wirth’s warm welcome to the nearly 180 docents and staff... Bobbi Pinkert presented the overall theme…

By Brent Hoffmann, Class of 2005 Rick is a many-degreed docent. His first was a BA degree in philosophy from St. Johns College in Santa Fe, N.M.  But his subsequent…

By Carol Muskin, Education Guide When we talk about Chicago’s architecture, we tend to focus on the last 200 years, the period after European-Americans came to dominate the area where…

By Marcia Ross, Class of  1994 Photographs by Larry Ross unless noted The Trustees System Services building, known today as Century Tower, is a lesser-known gem among Chicago’s Art Deco…

Props to our very own Sylvia Dunbeck, Class of 1987.  The Reader’s Deanna Isaacs recently took Sylvia’s Graceland Cemetery tour and in their October 16, 2024 issue, said that:  “Dunbeck,…

By Cynthia Bates, Class of  2016 In the fall of 1999, I was working at ad agency Hal Riney & Partners, in the beautiful Railway Exchange Building at 224 S…

Mary Allan, Mary Ludgen 1989, Mary Sarthy 2024, Mary Wacker 2015, Mary Willer 2009 River Cruise, October 2024 Wonderful tour with extremely knowledgeable expert tour guide, thank you so much…