(photo by Lee Bey)
"A Century of Progress" was Chicago's other world's fair. There was no Ferris Wheel. No Cracker Jack introduced to the masses. There was no Devil. No White City.
Remembering and recapturing architecture's future
Jul. 6, 2010A grand (and St. Clair) parking garage
Jul. 1, 2010
(photo by Lee Bey)
I was near St. Clair and Grand yesterday when I spotted the above parking garage.
New book brings praise and insight to Marina City
Jun. 30, 2010
A last farewell to Kiddieland
Jun. 29, 2010
"Running Scared" from O'Hare to downtown
Jun. 28, 2010I know: Another movie when I just did "Cooley High" last week.
St. Raphael (travelers' patron) calls a pair of closed Chicago churches 50 miles north
Jun. 24, 2010
(photo by Lee Bey)
Chicago as seen through the windows of 'Cooley High'
Jun. 23, 2010The movie "Cooley High" was released 35 years ago this week.
Made in 1975, the bittersweet tale of a group of Cabrini Green kids coming-of-age in the mid-1960s was dismissed as a black "American Graffiti" at the time. History has been a lot more kind, however, and the characters of Preach, Cochise, Pooter, Stone & Robert, Brenda -- oh, yes, Brenda -- and G.C. Cameron's heartbreaking "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" from the movie's soundtrack are well-established parts of the black pop culture universe.