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Back of the Yards
Jonah Rabb Reminiscent of green lawns and warm summer evenings, the name “Back of the Yards” might evoke the image of a quaint small-town neighborhood. Rather than neatly-trimmed backyards, however,...
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Great Minds Click Alike
Illustration by Isabel Ochoa Gold As the overhead lights slowly fade away, the first photograph is placed on the glowing display case, a structure that serves as an easel, both lighting and framing the...
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Muted Murals
CAM BAUCHNER The entrance to Casa Aztlan, a community center in Pilsen that provides support services for victims of prejudice, poverty, and social violence, is adorned with intricate depictions of...
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Expat Unity
PAULA GARRETT-ELLIS A seemingly simple dot, the Bindu is in fact a powerful Indian symbol that represents the point at which creation begins and may become unity. In a collaborative exhibition at the...
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Picking Up the Pieces
JULIET ELDRED A gaunt, contorted figure kneels on a pedestal, clutching his shoulders in a private gesture of melancholy, suffering, and solitude. A few rooms away, a Bodhisattva stands with eyelids...
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Art Mundane
COURTESY OF SUNDAY PROJECT A brand new art gallery might be expected to get off to a slow start—especially one with a debut exhibition called “Tentatively Titled”—but there’s nothing tentative or...
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A boy and a slave rafting down the Mississippi river, a night unfurling like an inky mirror of the river below it, a cottony breeze carrying the sound of chirping cicadas. The Renaissance Society’s...
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The word “laboratory” conjures images of test tubes, chemicals, beakers, and white coats. Place Lab, however, is a very different type of laboratory—one that reimagines spaces. Seeking to catalyze...
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A Voice for the Invisible
“Words spread through her lungs like vines, and blossomed from her mouth like flowers,” writes Bianca Diaz in her beautifully illustrated children’s book, The Princess Who Went Quiet. Words and...
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An Architect of Letters
Walking into Mauricio Ramirez’s studio in Lacuna Artist Lofts, it’s evident that his art is a creature with its own agency—free to jump from wall to canvas, from bicycle to CTA car, from iPhone case to...
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Although the members of the Beverly Morgan Park Community Choir (BMPCC) were all dressed in black at their annual concert, the atmosphere was anything but solemn. A drummer nodded his head to the...
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Revisiting The Project(s)
People and space are inextricably interwoven—buildings, streets, and cities often define the formation of neighborhoods and communities. Sometimes experiments and new projects are undertaken;...
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My winter boots are soaked in gold; my toes tingle as I dip them into the puddle of light that pours from the lamp above. Miniature suns in golden boxes bob over the wooden boards of the “L”...
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Community Matters
RUDY: Our story’s a story that spans forty years. JOYCE: Well actually forty-five years. Even longer than that. Actually about fifty-three or fifty-four years when we met at the first self-service...
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Best of Pullman & Roseland 2015
From their arrival in 1849 until George M. Pullman began to build his utopian Town of Pullman in 1880, the Dutch settled the Lake Calumet Region. To this day, these early settlers have left their...
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