(photo by Lee Bey)Hawaii has begun lobbying for the future Barack Obama Presidential Library. They’ve got a Facebook page and a pretty cool website devoted to the cause, too. No surprise, really. The president was born in Hawaii.

I had an idle thought this week while watching clips of‚ talk show host Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington D.C.: If a political or social movement stays around long enough, it will‚ sometimes begin to express itself in graphics, language, art, fash

(photo by Lee Bey)  Workers will begin deconstructing a long-vacant 92-year-old Chicago Roman Catholic Church today, and will ultimately transport the neo-classical edifice piece-by-piece 50 miles north to Lake County where it will be re-erected as part of a new church that will b

  (photo by Lee Bey)  Did you catch this? The era of the McMansion–the oversized symbol of the real estate excesses of the 1990s and early 2000s–is now over, according to real estate site Trulia.

In a bid to save it from demolition, a four-bedroom Glenview home built by a nephew of Chicago planner/visionary Daniel H. Burnham is on the market for $1. Yes, there is a bit of a catch. More on that in a bit.

Seven years have passed since Comiskey Park–home of the White Sox–was renamed “U.S. Cellular Field” under a $68 million naming-rights deal.

(photo by Lee Bey) I drove past 67th and Dorchester recently when I spotted this old building getting knocked down. In recent years, the structure was used as a church, but it was originally a funeral home (Oak Woods Cemetery is about a block west).