'Rosie Show' billboards very un-Chicago

Nov. 3, 2011
The Rosie Show tapes at Harpo Studios in Chicago. They've recently started to saturate the market with billboards, bus ads and taxi toppers showing Rosie sitting in a white chair with the Chicago skyline in the background.

Modernist gem faces wrecking ball

Nov. 3, 2011
The wrecker's ball is busy at work on the South Shore High School campus, bringing down a once-visionary late 1960s building that became the odd man out when a new school was completed earlier this year a block east at 75th and Jeffrey.It is a spectacular demolition site as equipment knocks away at

South Shore High heads toward demolition

Jan. 3, 2011
South Shore High School, hailed by school officials as the "most advanced high school in the United States" when it opened in 1969, will be demolished this year, according to the city's Public Building Commission.The PBC this month is seeking qualifications from companies with the capacity