(photo by Krista Malanowski) Earlier this month, we examined the abandoned Hill Top Outdoor Theater, a drive-in near Joliet in unincorporated Will County. Turns out I wasn't the only one pointing a camera at the old drive-in.

(photo by Lee Bey) I thought about architect Harry Weese last week while strolling into a meeting last week at the former Time Life Building, the modernist bronze skyscraper at 541 N. Fairbanks Court.

(photo by Lee Bey) New York officials and civic activists this week are debating the demolition of the Sheridan Expressway, a mile-long interstate that links two other interstates in the South Bronx.

(photo by Lee Bey)Detroit, our troubled neighbor to east, is starting the world’s largest urban farm–a 250 to 280-acre behemoth that organizers say will soon grow tomatoes, apples, lettuce and even trees.

(photo by Lee Bey) The three-story steel reinforced fiberglass eye sculpture--called, appropriately enough, "Eye"--debuted this week at downtown's Pritzker Park. The work is by Oak Park artist Tony Tasset and is actually modeled after one of his own eyeballs.

(photo by Lee Bey) Street repairs near Lake west of Odgen have revealed a pretty sturdy-looking old brick road beneath layers of asphalt.You see this and you imagine the then-young city bustling with people and the "clop" of work horses tromping across the brick surface--mayb

Throw ya hands in the air for the above clip from "3-2-1 Contact," a 1980s public television program designed to teach kids math and science.