Connecting the Windy City

The Heyworth Building (JWB Photo) My last post concerned the Flatiron Building in New York City, an eye-catching terra cotta gem out ...

Alfred Stiglitz's Flatiron Building of 1903 What the Parthenon is to Athens, Stigligtz said, the Flatiron is to New York Think of th...

The Flatiron Building from Madison Square Park (JWB photo) I n his 1906 book, The Future in America: A Search after Realities , H. G. We...

(Bartholomew Photo ) Big deal up here on Diversey last week as the vans, trucks and crew rolled in for a day of filming portions of...

Bartholomew Photo Adelor, the 15-year-old male lion at Lincoln Park Zoo, settles in for the long days of summer.  The majestic beast ...

If there is an intersection in the city where there are more cars running red lights than the intersection of Fullerton and Cannon Drive at ...

Bartholomew Photo On the night before the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup with an unbelievable overtime goal by Patrick Kane, ...