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Status Update: Muddy Maggie Daley Park
Demolition crews are making progress stripping the old Daley Bicentennial Plaza (337 East Randolph Street) off of the top of the Monroe Street Garage in order to replace it with a new roof and the new...
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Slice of Life: The Stacking Lions
Outside the Art Institute of Chicago (111 South Michigan Avenue)… It’s a lion… inside of another lion! I’m a genius! I should have gone to art school! Did you enjoy this article? Click to give the...
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Status Update: Maggie Daley Park
The sounds of bulldozers are becoming less frequent, and the sounds of jackhammers more frequent at the future site of Maggie Daley Park (337 East Randolph Street). Nearly all the dirt has been...
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Status Update: Irish Eyes Smile on Maggie Daley Park
One of our Loop Spies sent in this photograph taken during a break in the storms a couple of days ago. It shows a rainbow curving across the Chicago lakefront and landing in what in 2015 will be the...
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Chicago Skateboarders May Go Underground — Or At Least Below Grade
Grant Park Skate Park proposal #1. Courtesy of the grant Park Conservancy. For the last few years we’ve been listening to the Grant Park Conservancy (friends of the blog) ever-so-politely lament that...
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Status Update: Maggie Daley Park
It looks like the roof repair work at the parking garage beneath the future Maggie Daley Park is done. The concrete deck that will separate the kids above from the cars below is getting a layer of...
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10 Years Later: Millennium Park
On a crisp autumn night, September 26, 2003, a young journalist sat down at a desk in what was then called Hotel 71, unfolded a keyboard, slotted in a travel-worn U.S. Robotics Palm Pilot and started...
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Status Update: Maggie Daley Park Gets Blocked
Everyone is expecting big things from the new Maggie Daley Park. But unless you were there decades ago when the park was originally built at Daley Bicentennial Plaza, you might not have expected...
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Grant Park Getting Another Music Garden
Another piece of public art is going on display in Grant Park. It’s a monument to Polish composer Frédéric Chopin, and is being paid for by the Chicago branch of the Chopin Foundation. You may have...
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Grant Park Skate Park Grinding Ahead [updated]
The Chicago Plan Commission has approved the construction of a new skate park complex at the south end of Grant Park (using the address 300 East 11th Street). The project initially included features...
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A Nod to Train Stations Past and Bocce Courts of the Future
Illinois Central Randolph Street Station. This space is now better known as Millennium Park. Construction continues on the new Grant Park Skate Park, just south of the 11th Street pedestrian bridge...
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Status Update: The First Tree is Planted in Maggie Daley Park
The very first tree being planted at Maggie Daley Park. We shall call her “Lisa.” It’s been a long 21 months since construction began at the future site of Maggie Daley Park. When complete, it should...
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Slice of Life: Chicago on a Black-and-White Rail
They’ve been pared back, decked over, repurposed, and there was even once a proposal to turn the whole shebang into a field of wildflowers; but Chicago’s lakefront railroad tracks continue to carry...
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Lucas Picks a Pair of Rising Starchitects for His Chicago Lakefront Museum
They wanted iconic. They wanted different. And it seems the people behind the proposed Lucas Museum of Narrative Art have picked talent matching those parameters to design the new museum on...
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Millennium Park Turns 10; Demands Cake
Millennium Park under construction. Bonus: You can see Lakeshore East is still just a giant mud puddle in the background. It would sprout 7½ skyscrapers, a supermarket, a park and a school over the...
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Slice of Life: The Fountain of You
Chicago is a city in a garden, and that garden’s city has a number of great fountains. The big bad daddy of them all is, of course, Buckingham Fountain. Broad enough to entertain throngs of...
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Better Than a Parking Lot, But Is This the Museum Chicago’s Looking For?
The people behind the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art have released their vision of a new lakefront home. The controversial museum would be located near Soldier Field in the Chicago’s Museum Campus....
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Video: Mighty Morphin’ Maggie Park
It’s hard to believe, it’s been two years since construction began on what will very soon become Maggie Daley Park (337 East Randolph Street). In fact, the two-year anniversary was two weeks ago,...
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Mark Your Calendar — You Have a Date With Maggie Park
Friend-of-the-blog, Richard Ward, the president of the New Eastside Association of Residents tells us and everyone else on his mailing list that Maggie Daley Park (337 East Randolph Street) will be...
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Chicago’s Christmas Ribbon is About to Take a Bow
Dontcha just wanna lick it? Photograph courtesy of the Chicago Park District. We doubted it would happen, and we’re happy to be proven wrong. The Chicago Park District has told us that Maggie Daley...
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