Flight delays caused by a fire at a major FAA facility near Chicago have had paralyzing effects across a wide area of the country, with planes unable to use normal facilities at Chicago’s O’Hare (a hub for United and American) and Midway (a major…
It was easy for guessers to mistake Chicago’s central library building, named for the late Mayor, for a rail station or a public market, and to place it in Paris, Barcelona or Belgium. As a post-modernist building, it incorporates bits of the style…
Starting in November, Delta’s NY-Boston hourly shuttle operation is moving from the Marine Air Terminal, Laguardia’s old terminal for the Pan Am flying boats of the 30s to Delta’s main terminal at the far end of the field. It will no longer be able to…
One of the most fascinating pieces of public art I’ve ever seen is this one in Chicago. Known as Cloud Gate, it sits in Millennium Park. When I first saw it a number of years ago, I wrote the following about it which I…
This year marks the 125th anniversary of Chicago’s Auditorium Building, known as one of the masterpieces of Louis Sullivan and his partner Dankmar Adler. As a monument to Chicago’s post-fire civic pride, a 4300-seat theatre (largest in the country)…
Despite its well-earned reputation for having freezing, harsh winters, the cold weather ultimately leaves Chicago and is replaced by a very pleasant spring. This is a great time of year to visit the “Windy City”. Tulips and cherry…
For fans of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Chicago area is a mecca. His home and studio in Oak Park are surrounded by many houses he designed, the Robie House in Hyde Park is nearing completion of a major restoration.
Like the monolith in Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s monumental film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, “Cloud Gate” looks like an alien object dropped` onto a terrestrial landscape.
Flight delays caused by a fire at a major FAA facility near Chicago have had paralyzing effects across a wide area of the country, with planes unable to use normal facilities at Chicago’s O’Hare (a hub for United and American) and Midway (a major…
It was easy for guessers to mistake Chicago’s central library building, named for the late Mayor, for a rail station or a public market, and to place it in Paris, Barcelona or Belgium. As a post-modernist building, it incorporates bits of the style…
Starting in November, Delta’s NY-Boston hourly shuttle operation is moving from the Marine Air Terminal, Laguardia’s old terminal for the Pan Am flying boats of the 30s to Delta’s main terminal at the far end of the field. It will no longer be able to…
One of the most fascinating pieces of public art I’ve ever seen is this one in Chicago. Known as Cloud Gate, it sits in Millennium Park. When I first saw it a number of years ago, I wrote the following about it which I…
This year marks the 125th anniversary of Chicago’s Auditorium Building, known as one of the masterpieces of Louis Sullivan and his partner Dankmar Adler. As a monument to Chicago’s post-fire civic pride, a 4300-seat theatre (largest in the country)…
Despite its well-earned reputation for having freezing, harsh winters, the cold weather ultimately leaves Chicago and is replaced by a very pleasant spring. This is a great time of year to visit the “Windy City”. Tulips and cherry…
For fans of Frank Lloyd Wright, the Chicago area is a mecca. His home and studio in Oak Park are surrounded by many houses he designed, the Robie House in Hyde Park is nearing completion of a major restoration.
Like the monolith in Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke’s monumental film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, “Cloud Gate” looks like an alien object dropped` onto a terrestrial landscape.
