By Maurice Champagne, Class of 2004 Northwestern University’s music school was recently named the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music to honor the former university president who started the…
Designed by Helmut Jahn, this 74-story residential skyscraper is on track to be completed in 2021. The 323-unit building will include one to four bedroom luxury condominiums as well as…
By Lori Westerman, Class of 2006 “Mayor Daley foresaw the future for the public/private partnerships and made sure that neither politics not personalities would get in the way of getting…
Greetings fellow volunteers, What a big year this will be for all of us! 2018 has much in store for all CAF volunteers. The docents are busy reworking their tours…
Docents who registered to attend the January 27/February 10 training session for the New Historic tour training received an email earlier today indicating that the training would not take place…
As we enter the new year, the Move Task Force is dedicated to keeping docents and volunteers up-to-date on what is happening – and, boy, are things happening! Lots of…
By Lorie Westerman, Class of 2006 Recalling the controversy of the early 1970’s, “the opponents of the Illinois Center wanted things to stay the way they were and what were…
Cynthia Bates, 2016 I've taken much too long to express our appreciation of the River Cruise my husband and I took on August 5, starting at 2 p.m. We'd taken…
This, the last Move Task Force update for 2017, is really a look forward to 2018 – the Year of the Move (note the capitals, it’s important) and the beginning…
By Tom Carmichael, Class of 2007 For many tourists including myself, a trip to Italy is usually a trip to Rome and then north – Florence, Siena, Pisa, and Venice…