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Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. By Brent Hoffmann, 2005 & Susan Robertson, 2009 Photographs by the authors Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, scoured the…

by Emily Clott, Class of 2012 Eleanor Gorski, CAC’s new President and CEO, has made change the order of the day. She has been deliberate and thoughtful in re-structuring the…

by Ron Becker, Class of 2019 Beginning in 1979, Chicago’s Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy began to award an annual prize to living architects. The award, funded through…

by Kathy Krepps, Class of 2017 Commemorating Willis Tower’s 50 year milestone includes honoring the innovative engineer who came up with the structural form that defined what was then known…

By Brent Hoffmann, 2005 “In Ames, my hometown, my mother researched and wrote the application that established many of the houses in our neighborhood as Historic Old Town, one of…

Because there are many docents with the same first name, and we can't always tell which one a guest is applauding, we are listing all the docents by that name…

With the loss of Mary Lou Cardwell, class of 1977,  in June, 2022, a big chunk of CAC’s Institutional history and knowledge has been lost. A public school and ESL…

Summer season is here!  It’s the best time of year to be in Chicago – and it’s the best time of year to get out and give tours!  Over 100…

by Ron Becker, Class of 2019 Chicago has a reputation as a very walkable and bikeable city. Partly this is an accident of its geography, its flatness, but also the…

By Ellen Shubart, Class of 2006 If measured by shouts, applause and whoops, DAN 2023 was certainly a success! Last Thursday, June 15th, docents cheered for those fellow docents who…