As Chicago holds its first-ever “Jane’s Walk,” the South Loop opens itself up.
Architecture
A Landmark’s New Neighbor
by Emily Holland •
The Seminary Co-op’s move certainly signals a new era for the bookstore, but even in its new surroundings, the Sem is not so far removed from its intellectual and architectural roots.
In the Shadow of Mount Olympus
by Taro Matsuno •
It may be some time before the Michael Reese Hospital site is developed, though as long as the city continues to own the property, the clock is ticking.
Resurrection
by Haley Johnson •
After 137 years, St. James Church is scheduled for demolition this April.
Feel Like Going Home
by Taro Matsuno •
Muddy Waters’ old home is falling apart, and may face demolition. How did it come to this?
The Future of Woodlawn’s Housing
by Patrick Leow •
As the city and HUD plan Woodlawn’s future, some yearn for something more like the past. The official plan is an irresistible, seductive vision of Woodlawn’s future—a neighborhood reinventing itself anew as a place safe, immaculate, comfortable, and nothing like it was for the past couple of decades. But, will it work?
A Second Grace
by Bea Malsky •
Second Presbyterian Church of Chicago sits almost uncomfortably on the corner of Michigan and Cullerton, its great neo-Gothic mass of soaring arches and stone buttresses spliced into the South Loop’s unassuming landscape of sensibly sleek urban shops and apartments with…
Building Stories
by Bonnie Fan •
If Chicago were a jungle, along the lines of the urban cliché, then “The Poorhouse” would make for a stellar field manual.
