“Team=Together everyone achieves more.” Chuck Eiden, CAC Exhibit Host Chuck’s observation provided an astute summary of the group conversation during our January Volunteer Steering Committee meeting. After five months of…
By Hy Speck, Class of 1995 Would we have the skyscraper if ___________ had not invented the safety elevator back in _____? Architects were so proud of their elevators that…
By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 She’s behind all the tickets, the offerings, the lists of who will show up to the tour on any set day. Meet Amanda Abernathy,…
By Chuck Eiden, Exhibit Host “We want to be the first stop for visitors to Chicago and a return destination for locals looking to better understand and appreciate their city, through…
By Henry Kuehn, Class of 1974 Hard to believe that I have given my last CAF tour. It was an Architectural Highlights tour, on a bus filled with family and…
By Bob Michaelson, Class of 2011 The new headquarters of CAC is very near the Du Sable Bridge and across the river from the site of the homestead of Chicago’s…
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…