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by Jill Carlson, Class of 2013 A hybrid Docent Council meeting was held on Tuesday, September 12. It was a really lively meeting, and the full minutes will be posted…

by Rebecca Dixon, Class of 2003 Many long-time docents will remember Charniece Polk.  For years, she was the amiable, faithful, and competent tour scheduler at CAF when we were at…

by Ed McDevitt, Class of 2010 As we have gotten more deeply into the details of our Barry Sears Volunteer Library, we on the CAC Library Committee are discovering how…

Urbs in Horto Words and Music by John Slivka, Class of 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHeF3bviPNg Once a flat prairie, floating on a sea of clay Home to the 3 fires, Potawatomi, Odawa,…

by Ellen Shubart, Class or 2006| Photographs by Richard W. Shubart Greece has been hardwired into many of us since we were kids. In elementary school we learned about Greek…

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 Photographs by Larry Ross More than two dozen docents attended an Enrichment Committee outing on August 18th visiting Chicago’s new Climate Action Museum at…

Jim Bartholomew 2008 or Jim Javorcic 1999 River Cruise, July 2023 Jim was a fantastic tour guide. Learned so much from him and had a lovely cruise! Thank you, Jim!!!!…

 by Lisa Ciota, Docent Class of 2020, Education Guide “What is the city but its people?” is a question posed in Shakespeare’s 1608 tragedy, Coriolanus, about an ancient Roman general…

by Mary Jo Hoag  Class of 2009 On some CAC tours we discuss the Underground Railroad. This “railroad” was a system in place before the Civil War that helped escaping…

by Steve Redfield, Class of 2019 CAC’s “Elevated Architecture: Downtown ‘L’ Train” tour gives guests a unique opportunity to participate in Chicago’s transportation past, traveling around the Loop that opened…