Features

by Hy Speck, Class of 1995 Attention all Trivians: The Trivia staff will be on hiatus during July and August. We promise to return in September, bearing trivia guaranteed to…

Kyle Adams, 2016 We took one of the CAF River Cruises to get a lay of the land at the beginning of our trip. We were very lucky to have…

Ah, spring---fresh green leaves, flowers in bloom---and romance in the air! Pam Loewenstein’s (2015) son, Josh, and now daughter-in-law, Hilary, were married on Saturday, May 20. The wedding was held…

Greetings fellow volunteers, This month I’m writing about our fantastic VEV tour of the new exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art titled, Takashi Murakami: The Octopus Eats Its Own…

By  Barbara Puechler, Class of 2006 They don’t build them like this anymore! Those fascinating architectural masterpieces from the 1933 Century of Progress, that is. The futuristic homes featured at…

By Brent Hoffmann, Class of 2005 “Draw what you see,” said Wayne Galasek to the third-graders of Aerial Community Academy. “It could be those words up on the side of…

Hello, Everyone - In typical Chicago fashion, we have gone from a cold spring to the height of summer heat, with nary a stop in between. Just the kind of…

By Emily Clott, Class of 2012 It will be news to exactly no one that Paris is one of the world’s most heralded cities. Poets, artists, and musicians are drawn…

By Jack Kremers, Class of 2013 In the 1940s, the Keck brothers, architects, combined the international modern style with the American vernacular stick, prairie, and shingle styles. They did this…

Barry Bruckner, 1999 As a group of 11 Urban Planners and Land Developers from Toronto, we went on the Historic Skyscrapers tour and couldn’t have been more pleased. Barry was…