Beauties and beasts
The Loop is a visual feast of world-famous buildings, but it also offers rare cases of aesthetic indigestion. LOVELIEST: 1. Monadnock Building, 53 W. Jackson Blvd. -- An unadorned wonder,...
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Finding religion in the Loop
While the Loop is known for its temples of financial and political might, it also has places where you can turn to a Higher Power. Chicago Loop Synagogue, 16 S....
Loos in the Loop: From the unusual to the unsanitary
One of the most important things to know when navigating the Loop is where to go when you have to go . . . to the restroom, that is. Here's...
Beauties and beasts
LOVELIEST 1. Monadnock Building (left), 53 W. Jackson Blvd. -- An unadorned wonder, with thick brick walls that curve inward and upward to suggest an Egyptian pylon. Tribune photos by...
Finding religion in the Loop
While the Loop is known for its temples of financial and political might, it also has places where you can turn to a Higher Power. ---------- - Chicago Loop Synagogue,...
Loos in the Loop: From the unusual to the unsanitary
One of the most important things to know when navigating the Loop is where to go when you have to go . . . to the restroom, that is. Here's...
The alleyway through time
If Harry Potter lived in Chicago, he'd find his way to the world of magic not through Diagon Alley but along tiny cobblestone Pickwick Lane in the heart of the...
‘Rats with wings’?
A pigeon is just a type of dove -- but without a good publicist. "They're beautiful in their own way," says Megan Ross, curator of birds at Lincoln Park Zoo,...
The alleyway through time
If Harry Potter lived in Chicago, he'd find his way to the world of magic not through Diagon Alley but along tiny cobblestone Pickwick Lane in the heart of the...
Street smarts
1. In 1967, when the Picasso statue was unveiled in what is now the Daley Center Plaza, many were aghast. Ald. John J. Hoellen suggested the 50-foot-tall Cor-Ten steel sculpture...