Chicago

Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, with more than 2.7 million residents. Chicago is located at the southwestern end of Lake Michigan in the American Midwest. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, in the northeast of the state of Illinois.

I used to live in Chicago, at various addresses in the Hyde Park neighborhood and in North Center near Lincoln Square.

City of Chicago (city government) website: www.chicago.gov

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Report details crisis in Chicago arts and culture

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Chicago Sun-Times: “Post-pandemic ‘crisis’ in Chicago’s cultural arts scene is real, new report finds”; links to report summaries and upcoming DCASE, SMU DataArts webinar

Why “Chicagoland”

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WBEZ’s Curious City looks into “Chicagoland,” the term, its origins, purpose, and definition—its boundaries. Chicago Tribune publisher Robert R. “Colonel” McCormick commissioned James O’Donnell Bennett to write a series of Chicago region travel articles. That’s how the word made its first appearance nearly 100 years ago in the July 27, 1926 edition of the Chicago Tribune. … Read more

901 West Kinzie Street, Chicago in 2016 and 2017

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With the summer 2023 opening of the Guinness Open Gate Brewery Chicago announced just head of this St. Patrick’s Day week, I’m taking the opportunity to look back at the 901 W. Kinzie Street location. These are the “before” pictures, if you will, of the site before its redevelopment. This building used to be along my bike commute route to and from River North. 2017 photos show intensive mural art decoration—and the 2016 photo below shows that the murals hadn’t been there all that long. (And from the current photo accompanying the Sun-Times story, it looks like the murals are already largely gone—and there’s already an adjacent residential highrise.)

Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really.

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Los Angeles Is a Fantastic Walking City. No, Really. Los Angeles is one of 88 separate but overlapping municipalities in L.A. County. Places we think of as towns (Hollywood) are actually just neighborhoods, while places that sound like neighborhoods are cities (West Hollywood). This is not to be confused with Greater Los Angeles, often called … Read more