Documentation

In these Times is a left-leaning political and culture magazine.

Photography by Suzette Bross which documents commuting.

In the second installment of his Ultra Local Geography, Larry Shure documents the "functional beauty" of the portals to various buildings in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. An exhaustive zine-cum-architectural-guidebook, it documents and describes the features of eleven doors, including date, architect, building owner, cost, size, building materials, and even the reference information for the City of Chicago building permits. Shure provides drawings of the doors, their building facades, and street addresses/intersections.

Ira Bach describes architectural walks "selected to present Chicago as a great cosmopolitan city as well as a collection of local community areas, all tied together by an intricate web of transportation that makes them accessible to the pedestrian for a closer view."

Exhibition catalog for a 2006 show of photographer Ben Gest's work at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. Includes reproductions of Gest's portraits.

Includes reproductions of works by artist Tony Tasset, MFA '85, The Art Institute of Chicago, and an essay by Kathryn Hixon.

Widely known as the "great" poet from Illinois, is especially remembered for his monumental three volume biographical stud of Abraham Lincoln. A journalist, author of children's stories, he edited a pathbreaking collection of songs, American Songbag. This new collection of his writings convey the excitement and tragedy of the times and his commitment to a movement to change them.

Exhibition catalog for the exhibit, "Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann," curated by Michael Rooks and on display at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Montclair Art Museum, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. "'Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westerman' attempts to shed light on the artist's early enthusiasm for painting and the implications this had for his development as a mature student who had already reached his 30s at the close of his years at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago." (p. 14).

This publication accompanies the exhibition " Barbara Crane: Chicago Loop," organized by The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago , and on view there March 21-June 15, 2002. Includes reproductions of photographs in Barbara Crane's "Chicago Loop" series, 1976-1978, now part of the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection.

"In 'Plans of Chicago,' R. Samuel Roche and Aric Lasher investigate the 'Plan of Chicago' as a design strategy and a point of departure for a new regional planning approach. They illuminate it historical context through a discussion of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and the 1901 McMillan Plan for Washington, DC, its primary antecedents. Comparing its priorities and strategies with those of earlier and later plans of Chicago -- including projects by Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jens Jenson, and Ludwig Hilberseimer -- Roche and Lasher offer a new approach to regional planning that combines the strengths and objectives of these various plans of Chicago.'