Someday
Someday, fairly soon, a 10-year-old girl will look out over a vast panorama of prairie grasses and travel back hundreds of years to a time when the landscape was unplowed and ...
Our green future
In the 1909 Plan of Chicago, Daniel Burnham wrote:
“While the keynote of the nineteenth century was expansion, we of the twentieth century find that our ...
Messiness --- and "a nice place to live"
“A city is competitive if people think of it as a nice place to live.”
Chicago Sun-Times business reporter David Roeder isn’t as grandiloquent ...
Learning to plan --- and lead --- for the future
“It feels like Chicago,” Spencer Teiken says.
The 16-year-old from Oswego is rattling along in a city subway car for the first time, and he’s ...
Back in that time --- Chicago in 1948
If you’re at all a fan of Chicago history, I’m sure you know the frustration.
You read about Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette arriving in ...
Planning sacrifice
No one showed up. But it wasn't the end of the world. These things happen. So Erin Aleman, Mina Duarte and I sat around talking for a half hour or so.
It was on ...
Discovering their city on a field trip to Millennium Park
After walking east on Randolph Street, Mary O’Malley’s third-graders take an elevator down past several levels of the Grant Park garage --- to another Randolph Street, ...
Showcasing one community --- and all communities
Joe Graber of Oak Park is delighted to see the solid, well-appointed, well-maintained three-flat at 8201 S. Elizabeth St.
It’s where his father grew up. ...
Planning as a way of life
Second of two
In 1909, civic leaders developed the Plan of Chicago to cope with the city’s immense but problem-filled success. More recently, Orland ...
Walking in the land of cars
First of two
In the Encyclopedia of Chicago, Orland Park is described as “a classic example of the American automobile-based suburb.” So “walkable” ...
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