Target tries harder

New designs show improvement

08/11/2010

Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin recently contrasted Target’s new Wilson Yards outlet with the company’s “standard suburban model — a one-level store surrounded by parking.” The Wilson Yards store, however, as Kamin wrote, is a “compact two stories, with roughly 400 parking spaces tucked underneath.”
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Passing the buck

08/11/2010

The University of Illinois-Chicago recently sent employees notice that a rush-hour bus service providing medical center employees and some students quick and affordable access to Union and Ogilivie Stations would be cut this fall.

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Lolla over the ages

One View

08/11/2010

I attended the Lollapalooza Music Festival for the first time in the early 1990s. At that time, the fest was still in its infancy — only a few years old. Organized by Jane’s Addiction’s frontman Perry Farrell, the festival was like him, a young, restless beast, roaming the country bringing what was then known as “alternative” culture to those tuned to such wavelengths.
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Debt, the killer

Hall of fame's distress a warning to other small institutions

08/04/2010

Regular readers of this editorial page will recall that we’re big fans of the city’s smaller museums and cultural centers. An opinion piece we ran here in April 2009 prodded readers to not forget about institutions like the Blues Heaven Foundation near 21st and Michigan, the Hellenic Museum in Greektown and the A. Phillip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum on the Far South Side.
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An eye for the ages

07/28/2010

At least 10,000 people will have asked this question this week, so one more time won’t matter: What the heck is a giant eyeball doing in the middle of Pritzker Park?
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Thoughts on two West Loop projects

What about the design?

07/28/2010

Recent editorials we’ve written about current West Loop developments - The Gateway at Madison and Halsted, the Target at the Fannie May site - have neglected an important aspect of each project: architecture and design. Let’s examine that now.
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Shut it down

Aldermen — Solis especially — need to step up on coal plant issue

07/21/2010

Been a hot summer, no? We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: City council needs to pass the ordinance drafted by Ald. Moore and supported by 12 aldermen to start the process of closing down the Fisk and Crawford coal-fired power stations in Pilsen and Little Village.
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West Loop scores with foodies

07/21/2010

In spite of the wearied economy, sluggish like a daisy wilting in 90-degree sun, the West Loop is proving that it remains a highly desirable location for the city’s most ambitious and innovative restaurateurs.
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Why I'm supporting Target

07/21/2010

I recently attended Ald. Fioretti’s town hall meeting, which was followed by Target’s presentation of its proposed store on Jackson and Aberdeen. I was one of the people who had been in discussions with an attorney for Target who contacted me at the request of Ald. Fioretti’s office. I am on the board of Near West Neighbors.
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Bad economy doesnt justify West Loop Target

07/21/2010

Thanks for your recent editorial “Just Barely” (Chicago Journal, July 15) on the proposed big box Target store in the West Loop. My wife and I attended Ald. Fioretti’s recent town hall meeting at the Merit School of Music to share our concerns and our subsequent opposition to the proposal.
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