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By Brian Kelly, Class of 2019 It was a quiet Loop afternoon on the fifth of July. I was making my way home beneath the familiar clickity clack of the…

By Tom Drebenstedt, Class of 1984 Editor’s note: Tom's story originally appeared in CAC@Home. Docents and volunteers contributed twenty stories to CAC@Home last year. In case you missed them the…

By Brent Hoffmann, Class of 2005 “Tourees often ask me how our Bloomingdale Trail, the heart of Chicago’s 606, compares to the High Line in New York City,” said John…

Hey, docents, have you been enjoying our Walks Down Memory Lane, celebrating 50 years of the docent corps? We’ve buried you in nostalgia on The Bridge, in our video programs,…

By Bob Sutter, Class of 2019, Education Guide, Exhibit Host As we celebrate the contributions of our volunteers, let’s chronicle the story of the team founded five years ago in…

Dear Docents, Well, here we are at the height of summer.  Things are feeling a bit more normal (is this the new normal or will we ever get back to…

By Harry Eisenman, Guest Service Volunteer Ambassadors – that’s what we needed back in 2002 – ambassadors to welcome guests as they arrived in CitySpace at the Railway Exchange Building.…

My first CAC tour experience was so long ago it was still the “CSAF”- the Chicago School of Architecture Foundation. This was around 1977. I was in college when I…

By Cynthia Bates, Class of 2016 Personal Glimpses into the Lives and Fortunes of Some Owners . Very near the end of the tour, the William Bartlett Estate coach house…

Kathy Baker 2016 Our daughter is very interested in architecture. She asked to go on the Architecture tour. Our volunteer tour guide I believe her name was Kathy was book…