“It is hard to imagine [Harold Washington] not being pleased with the boldness, audacity, and solidity of the [library’s] design–all features having certain affinities with the late mayor himself,” writes Philip Bess in Inland Architect (March/April). “Moreover, there is something fittingly ‘Chicago’ about this adaptive appropriation of the loft building for a major civic structure. It is not simply that the loft building as a type lends itself so well to so many different activities….It is also that Chicago’s grandest urban visionaries, Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett, seemed to regard the loft building as their basic standard urban building block.”
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This must explain all those people who go into crowded restaurants and open fire. UIC English instructor Deborah Covino: “Movies may be the most potent form of self-help available. They offer us simple, but powerful, on-screen behaviors that demonstrate solutions to the problems people often face in their careers or relationships.”
Letters we didn’t quite believe. “We have received many inquiries about National Welding Month…”
They don’t call this the “Sucker State” for nothing. From an Energy Foundation report on energy efficiency in the midwest: “Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Pennsylvania have opportunities …to encourage regulatory reform and increased utility investments in energy-efficiency, or demand-side management (DSM). Illinois, because of a non-receptive utility commission, an extremely powerful utility, and a poor regulatory framework, does not currently have good reform potential.”
