This Saturday, Lee Bey and his camera took a break from architecture and attended the 22nd annual Chosen Few picnic in Jackson Park. The event honors house, the rythmic, pulsating dance music that originated in Chicago.
Chicago's railroad legacy provides a space for art and messages that are sometimes crude, thoughtful, humorous or mysterious. Just like the city itself.
Courtesy of LIFE magazine, here's a glimpse of the long-gone Mecca Apartments: a massive 96-unit apartment building that began life among the city's finer residences, then hit hard times.
Flamingo, the five-story, steel sculpture perched in the Federal Center plaza since 1973, is undergoing a month-long restoration designed to make the famed work of art shine once more.
The ICE 62nd & Western 10 theater was one of three then state-of-the-art Chicago multiplexes built by the ICE Theater chain in 1997. With locations at 87th and the Dan Ryan and on Roosevelt Road in the North Lawndale community, the theaters brought first-run movies to those areas for the first since at least the early 1980s.
