Features

By Emily Clott, Class of 2012 Tours - CAC has lots of them. How do they come about? Who writes them? Who? Docents, of course.  At this 50-year mark, let’s…

  By Jill Carlson, Class of 2013 As life slowly gets back to normal and tours are added to the calendar, test your knowledge and memory by answering these tour…

By Lisa Ciota, Education Guide, Class of 2021 Yes, Scotty, beam Helmut Jahn up to the pantheon of great architects who shaped our spaces, influenced our places, and called Chicago…

By Leslie Clark Lewis, Class of 2009 We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the death of architect Art Gensler, who passed away on May 10, 2021 at…

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 It was the era of eating stuffed crust pizza, focaccia, molten lava cake, and Chinese chicken salad. Lunchables, Eggo waffles, and pizza rolls were…

By Steven Redfield, Class of 2019 Editor’s note: Steve'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 Bob Carr’s interest in architecture long predates his service with CAC as an exhibit host.  “When I worked at the Chicago Tribune, I got…

Problems with the Highlights By Bus  tour started immediately: Most of my life’s “strange happenings” experiences have involved buses.  On a Highlights by Bus tour, for example, our bus was…

By Brian Kelly, Class of 2019 The allure of Chicago’s few remaining post-fire buildings increases with each passing year. On Chicago Architecture: A Walk Through Time tours, I hand a…

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 It was more than a twenty-year run – starting in the depths of a recession that made a receptionist job palatable for a Loyola…