This great building in downtown Chicago on the Magnificent Mile is the way skyscrapers should be built; right up to the street with shopping on the first floor. None of that “tower in a park” crap that got so popular in the Twentieth Century. Note the decorative brickwork on the side of the building; while…
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Washburne Trade School Almost Gone
Update: This is probably no longer the largest building that I’ve been in to be demolished. That distinction goes to Crestwood Mall. I had heard that Washburne was coming down quickly, but I was stunned at the rate of progress. I parked along the street in front, got out and took some photos, wished I…
Evanston, Illinois Textures
Having grown tired of taking another dozen pictures of the Rookery Building in Chicago, I decided to photograph something else the last time I was in Chicago. Here are some of the fruits and vegetables I saw in the farmers’ market in Evanston, to the north of the city.
Washburne Trade School Coming Down
Update: Further demolition occurred by late July 2009. The building is now completely gone. Reading around the web, I found out that the fabled Washburne Trade School in Chicago is being demolished as we speak.
New Website Allows Commuters to Complain About Their Commute
I found a link on the Post-Dispatch website to a site called http://www.mycommutesucks.org. At this site you can read about (mostly Chicago area) commuters complaining about how their 50 mile commute takes 2 hours in rush hour traffic. Go figure! I did find one comment that seemed to address the vapid lack of self reflection…
Pullman, South Chicago
Update: Completely new and expanded commentary and additional photographs from the vault in August of 2023. The planned industrial suburb of Pullman, nowadays within the borders of the City of Chicago, remains one of the most important and influential of numerous communities constructed by paternalistic factory owners in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. The…
Washburne Trade School
Update: Washburne Trade School was torn down in 2009. I posted pictures of its demolition here and here.