Living Landmarks of Chicago

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June 2025

Symphony Center: How a child prodigy struck the right chord
A love song of music, vision, and stubborn Chicago ambition.
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Theresa Goodrich
For 2 months, Chicago was home to the 1st Selfridges in the world
The retail version of taking your ball and going home
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Sullivan Center: The Perfect Skyscraper
Or so its irascible architect would have you believe
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Who puts a library in a water tank?
Chicago does; that's who.
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Chicago Cultural Center: The Fight for the People's Palace
Inside the resplendent kaleidoscope that began as a public library
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The Treasure that is Harry Caray's
You might not expect a restaurant to be a repository for history and Chicago lore.
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Holy Egg-Throwing Apes! The Story of Harry Caray's Dutch Masterpiece
And gangsters, too.
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Clean Up on Aisle Chicago, Circa 1870
Lambert Tree wasted no time taking out the trash after his election as Judge to the Circuit Court
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May 2025

Tree Studios: Supporting the Arts Even During a Depression (and maybe because of)
Meet the couple who turned their backyard into an artist colony.
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Jenney and the Whalers
It's not a band, it's the inventor of the skyscraper, who literally sailed around the world before settling in Chicago
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Kimpton Gray: How Bamboo Huts Inspired the Skyscraper
Meet William Le Baron Jenney, a man with serious wanderlust and constructive imagination
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