There are hundreds of reasons to celebrate the end-of-year holidays, and docent Molly Page (Class of 2013) literally found hundreds of reasons to celebrate with the new special edition of…
By Donna Gabanski, Class of 1994 It’s January and time to welcome the 2024 docent class. Training begins on January 20th with 34 participants. Ten of the trainees will go…
Tours don’t always go as planned. These four Short Tales are a tribute to the flexibility, adaptability, perseverance and patience of CAC docents. Emily Clott, 2012, describes an interesting first-of-the-season…
By Leslie Clark Lewis, Class of 2009 Just before the pandemic shut everything down, I spotted a Public Notice sign in the window of the Covent Hotel, a single-room-occupancy (SRO)…
by Jessica Williams, Class of 2017 Photos by the author unless noted London offers an architectural assortment—from the very old to the very new, as well as the adaptively reused.…
December Cheer Take a stroll through Chicago's winter wonderland. Indoors or out, the joys of the season abound. CLICK HERE FOR THIS MONTHS PHOTOGRAPHS. Then click on a picture to…
Docent Ellen Shubart (Class of 2006) will appear on the WGN-TV Morning News at 9 am on Dec. 26 (the day after Christmas), to discuss her recently published book "Secret…
Mark Campbell 2023, Mark Lenhart 2023, or Mark Purdome 2019 River Cruise October 2023 Our cousins were in town so we took them on a Chicago Architecture Center River Cruise,…
By Brent Hoffmann, class of 2005 You may not have met him, as he’s fairly new--a Bovine, class of 2019. But you’ve likely read one of Burt’s articles -- replete…
by Ron Becker, Class of 2019 If Chicago is determined that it had lived up to its motto, Urbs in Horto, during its first century, much of the credit is…