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Three Kinds of Blue on Dearborn Street
Have you seen the new subway entrances that the CTA is using in the Loop? They’re nice. They remind you of the quaint Quincy elevated station (the only CTA station without advertising). When a pack...
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Slice of Life: Water Crossing
It’s a scene you’ve seen a thousand times. But somehow there’s something about the sight of a train crossing a bridge over a road over a river over another train (in the Lake Street subway tunnel)...
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Will Chicago Finally Get a New Supertall Skyscraper?
Drawing of the old Chicago Main Post Office redevelopment project by Booth Hansen Yesterday, grand plans were unveiled for redeveloping Chicago’s old Main Post Office (433 West Van Buren Street), and...
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Chicago’s Underground History
I saw something interesting the other day while waiting for a Blue Line train in the Clinton Station. There are signs on two of the columns giving a little history of the station. The text is from...
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Will a Scrawnier Wolf Get Everyone on Point?
The current champion for largest and most controversial development in downtown Chicago (that actually has a chance of happening) is making its way through the approval process largely unscathed. Wolf...
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Will Block37’s New Blades Keep People From Skating By?
Block37 with a frame for its new vertical signs attached. Months after getting an exemption to a city ordinance prohibiting large signs on its facade, Block37 (1 West Randolph Street) is finally...
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With Renovations Both Planned and Unplanned, it’s a Big Week for CTA’s Blue Line
It’s only Wednesday, and already it’s been a busy week for the Chicago Transit Authority. Starting with the beginning of construction on the $492 million planned renovation of the Blue Line from...
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CTA’s New Belmont Station Plan Includes More Dinosaur Ribs
The Chicago Transit Authority continues to get improving marks when it comes to public sector architecture. For decades, the bus and train quango’s attention to design was… shall we say… less than...
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From Parking to Petunias? Market Makeover Proposed for Logan Square Blue Line...
The process of elevating Chicago’s surface parking lots to higher purposes continues not only in the downtown area, but also in the neighborhood commercial corridors. One of the more visible urban...
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First Pictures Releasd of Downtown to O’Hare Electric Skate Loop Track
Last month the tech world was all atwitter over the announcement that billionaire socialite Bruce Wayne… er… Elon Musk would scratch Chicago’s itch for a better way between downtown and O’Hare airport...
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CTA to Wicker Park Building: No Fat Bricks
Losing weight is hard. If it was easy, there wouldn’t be an entire industry built around it. But you can’t just call up Weight Watchers and ask Marie Osmond to help you knock a few pounds off an...
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