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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1h

And from 2010. I remember Tim Samuelson telling me Stanley Tigerman expressed indifference to the fate of this building, but, as much as the accustomed behemoths, it's small (relatively) delights like this that give a great city its character.
arcchicago.blogspot.com/2010/09/patr...

Patron Saint of the Self Park

click images to see larger view If you go to St. Peter's in Rome, you see gigantic statues of the saints along the roof line. So, just beca...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1h

It's been six years since Stanley Tigerman's passing. What I would give to hear his take on our present situation. (from 2012)
arcchicago.blogspot.com/2012/05/arch...

The Architect as Zelig: Tigerman's Ceci n'est pas une reverie at the Graham, open late tonight, closes Saturday

You have only through Saturday, May 19th, to view Ceci nʻest pas une rêverie: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman at the Graham Foundatio...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1h

The book "Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable" came out in July, but IIT is having a book launch on the 27th, with a panel including Margaret McCurry, John Ronan, Iker Gil and Reed Kreloff.
arch.iit.edu/events/tiger...

Deans’s Panel Lecture: Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable

Explore Stanley Tigerman’s imaginative architectural drawings and working methods at an upcoming Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture event.

arch.iit.edu

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4h

To revive and paraphrase a classic Richard J. Daley quote, "DHS and ICE aren't there to stop disorder; they're there to CREATE disorder."
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

Postcard From Chicago: There’s an ICE Facility in My Backyard

Chicago was not a war zone when Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz began. DHS and ICE have made it one.

www.vanityfair.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 5h

Apparatchiks like Bondi believe truculence is both shield and prophylactic. freeing them to lie, bluster and make personal attacks rather than provide answers. The calm but dogged persistence of panel members like Durbin puts their reckless evil in high relief.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FeM...

WATCH: Durbin presses Bondi for rationale behind troop deployment to Illinois

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 5h

"I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump."

We need to come up with a new name; to call them Nazi does them too much credit. No coherent ideology, other than a rabid lust for absolute power in service to malevolent, self-enriching ends.
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Bondi tells Durbin she wishes he "loved Chicago as much as you hate Pres. Trump" in Senate hearing

Sen. Dick Durbin and Attorney General Pam Bondi traded barbs about the National Guard and Chicago, with Bondi telling Durbin she wished he "loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump."

www.cbsnews.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 6h

Newly opened Jellycat store at Nordstrom's Northbridge.
chicago.suntimes.com/business/202...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 7h

When I was a kid in school, the Erie Canal showed up in textbooks as a kind of historical artifact. Now I'M a kind of historical artifact, but at 250 years old, the Canal is still a spur for new development, as Timothy A. Schuler reports for Bloomberg's CityLab
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Long Comeback of the Erie Canal

One of America’s first major public works projects is marking its 200th anniversary — and seeking a path to the future.

www.bloomberg.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

Trump's long rancid history is one of stiffing people who do work for him.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/u...

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

www.nytimes.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

via New City, Artnet's Richard Whiddington reports on FLW's funky design for chairs at the Guggenheim's cafe - never realized, until they were finally created for the exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design" at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend.
news.artnet.com/art-world/fr...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

via New City, Artnet's Richard Whiddington reports on FLW's funky design for chairs at the Guggenheim's cafe - never realized, until they were finally created for the exhibition "Frank Lloyd Wright: Modern Chair Design" at the Museum of Wisconsin Art in West Bend.
news.artnet.com/art-world/fr...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Once again LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik does the research and bring the receipts to reveal Trump's secretive drug plan will benefit few, is a major coup for Pfizer's profits, and that TrumpRX will do little more but refer users to already existing sites.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

A fascinating and hopeful article from Arno Rosenfeld in the Forward about how one southern university is combating anti-semitism while protecting free speech.
forward.com/news/antisem...

This school is fighting antisemitism all wrong. Why is it working?

Elon University has earned praise for creating a safe campus for Jewish students even as it enables free speech blocked by other universities.

forward.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Nuages
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLb...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

The "compact" Trump is forcing on nine of the country's leading university is just another extortionist shakedown to extend authoritarian control over higher education, in which "belittlement" of conservative ideas is banned.
newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

"Where Chicagoans can pause to catch a breath..." CST's Lee Bey's appreciation of the just re-opened Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool. Coincidentally, I also stopped by yesterday to visit this civic treasure and retrieve a place of calm in our current chaos.
chicago.suntimes.com/architecture...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago Under Construction: 629 West Lake, Desplaines at the Green Line, Axios Architects, 49 apartments, plus ground-floor retail. Hot dogs probably not included.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ZSGl...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

AI may still be gobbling up capital, energy and water with no idea on when it will result in a profit, but those trillions are already making so many AIbros so very, very rich that's there's now a shortage of mansions to go around.
www.sfchronicle.com/realestate/a...

AI wealth has created a new dynamic in S.F. real estate: Not enough mansions

San Francisco has long been a market for the affluent, but luxury homes across the city are being sold at record speed as a new wave of wealth floods the city with fresh riches.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Instigate and retaliate: CityFiles Press publisher Rich Cahan provides a first-person, on-the-scene account - with a lot of photos - of Trump Gestapo leaders Noem and Bonvino's incitements and attacks on peaceful protests in Broadview.
evanstonroundtable.com/2025/10/04/b...

The view from the ground in the Broadview 'free arrest zone' - Evanston RoundTable

There were tense moments during Friday's protest at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, 25 miles southwest of Evanston.

evanstonroundtable.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: free live stream of opening night for Met Opera's new production of Bellini's La Sonnambula with Nadine Sierra, tonight, Monday, Oct 6, 6:55 CDT.
www.metopera.org/season/radio...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

So I was riding home on the J6 Express yesterday, next to only window not covered by ad gauze, when I felt what seemed like a tap on shoulder from someone exiting the rear door. A second later this fell into lap. Now I have to figure out who had the screw loose -the bus or myself.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

Traditional bride

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

Something I missed about Rachel Herzog's report in Crain's on the Pittsfield Building office-to-residential conversion is that the plan includes an observation deck at the top.
www.chicagobusiness.com/commercial-r...

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