Docent Council Addresses Tour Scheduling Issues
The newly elected Docent Council began its new year with a Feb. 7 wide-ranging discussion about the tour scheduling process, the numbers of tours offered, the number of docent slots…
The Second Oldest Book in the CAC Volunteer Library – Theatres and Picture Houses
by Ed McDevitt, Class of 2010. Into the late 20th century Meloy’s treatise on theater design was still a reference in landmarking determinations. It is cited in the 1987 New…
April VolunteerMatters Scheduling Begins Saturday, February 4th at 9:30am
April signups will be available by 9:30 am this Saturday, February 4th. A friendly reminder that opening the shifts is a manual process. If a certain calendar is not open,…
Black History Month 2023: Honoring Fritz Pollard
. By Maurice Champagne, Class of 2004 In 2010, thirteen muralists created “Community Leaders”, a mural in Rogers Park. You’ll find it on the west side of the CTA embankment…
Union Station and the Fred Harvey Restaurant
By Joan Johns, Class of 2008 Tour Director, Union Station: Icon of a Great Age Have you been to Union Station recently? Since the black curtain in the Great Hall…
CAC Update 2.3.2022
April- May CAC Schedule Starting in April, we will be moving back to a 7 day schedule! Our hours will be from 10am to 5pm, as usual. Below is the…
New at the Barry Sears Library “The Women Who Changed Architecture”
Foreword by Beverly Willis, Introduction by Amale Andraos, Edited by Jan Cigliano Hartman, Princeton Architectural Press, 2022 Reviewed by: Bobbi Pinkert, Class of 1999 It’s about time, right? This is…
Kudos, January, 2023
Cynthia Bates 2016 River Cruise November 2022 Dear Architecture Center, I was recently able to take a river cruise with the Chicago Architecture Center, something I had not done in…
Patricia Grund, 2001 – Keeps it Simple
By Brent Hoffmann, 2005 “I’m a simple person,” Pat admitted. “I took a river tour before I became a docent, and the docent threw out the term ‘mullions’. I looked…
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