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Friday, August 1, 2025

Going up river with Sun-Times architecture critic Lee Bey, plus another guy

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      "Even if it's just you and me and Lee, we'll have fun," I told my wife, of the architectural river tour I'm host...
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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Flashback 1997: It's all water into the crib

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Harrison crib, left, built in 1900; Dever crib is to the right. (Chicago Department of Water Management photo)     I was chatting Saturday w...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

When the news isn't new

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"Napoleon's Return from Elba," by the Charles de Steuben.      This Epstein thing, just goes on and on and on.      Which is s...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Hog wild

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     My stock of Yiddish phrases is not very deep. But I do know "shonda fur di goyim" — a disgrace in front of the gentiles. Usu...
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Monday, July 28, 2025

Trump's executive orders on homelessness: 'Inhumane ... ineffective and counterproductive'

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     A homeless man has been sleeping on a low flagstone wall at the corner of Shermer and Walters in Northbrook for the past few nights. A ...
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Sunday, July 27, 2025

'Manifest Destiny'

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Detail of "Manifest Destiny," by Alexis Rockman (National Portrait Gallery)      When methods of communication are being discussed...
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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Demolished house

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      The house was small. And white. On Catherine Street, two blocks from my own. With black shutters that never closed once — decorative. ...
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