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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 27m

Some of Chicago's most iconic landmarks provide the backdrop for 53,000 Marathon runners. Click the link and see all photos.
arcchicago.blogspot.com/2025/10/runn...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3h

Marathon

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 5h

Half the State Street bridge reopened - just for the Marathon.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 18h

Beginning now, Saturday Oct 11, 7pm CDT, live-streamed on WCRB, the Boston Symphony marks its 125th year with a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the work that opened Symphony Hall in 1900.
www.classicalwcrb.org

CRB Classical 99.5

Great classical music for Boston and beyond.

www.classicalwcrb.org

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 21h

Sad news. A true Chicago original.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/11/t...

Tony Fitzpatrick, a Chicago artist in many realms, has died at 66

He had recently published a new book, “The Sun at the End of the Road,” filled with his distinctive art, poetry and prose. Some consider it a memoir.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 22h

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 22h

The day before the Chicago Marathon, in a series of mostly out-of-focus images.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 23h

Larry Buchanan in the New York Times does a Ten Minute Challenge on Kerry James Marshall's massive canvas "Untitled (Studio)", invited viewers to take an extended look at the work, and providing insights into technique, content, composition, and antecedents.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

10-Minute Challenge: A Modern Master Takes Us Inside an Artist’s Studio

We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

www.nytimes.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

They were never what you thought, the techbros who put on progressive airs when they found it expedient. Benioff cultivated the image of a benevolent teddy bear, but it was just a ruse while waiting for Trump to come along to let his true rancid MAGA self burst forth.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

River canyon

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Reilly also reports they're also finally applying for a permit for the long-delayed DuSable Park, with Related Midwest, building their tower across the street at 400 DLSD tower, ponying up $10 million towards a total cost of $15 million+.

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Say goodbye. 42nd ward Ald. Brendan Reilly's Friday newsletter reveals the 5-story, 1953 structure at 67 East Oak is to be demolished for a two-story replacement, getting rid of the English basement, and bringing the height to be more in tune with buildings on either side of it.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

JFC
wapo.st/4q40KV7

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

So Qatar gave Trump a $470 million jet, and now they're being invited to build an air base on U.S. soil? Nothing to see here - move along.
www.newsweek.com/qatar-gettin...

Qatar is getting an Air Force facility in Idaho: What to know

The U.S. and Qatar have increasingly cooperated on a number of issues in recent years, including the Gaza peace deal.

www.newsweek.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

Cheri Charlton's nature mural spreading to the west wall of the Lasalle underpass near North Avenue Beach. The east wall includes not only cranes and butterflies, but skylines, piping plovers and even the recently re-opened Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool.
www.instagram.com/p/DPYGetUDuTF/

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

Much more next week about this rather splendid new volume, but for now a few pics from last evening's book launch at the CAC, with co-authors Carla Bruni and illustrator Phil Thompson, for Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City's Everyday Architecture.
www.agatepublishing.com/978157284357...

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

So Dominion Voting Systems, which won almost a billion dollars in settlements over false claims of counting irregularities, has been sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote to a Missouri firm that will finally be in position to make those false claims reality.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Dominion, voting firm targeted by false 2020 election claims, sold to new owner

Company, which reached $787.5m defamation settlement with Fox News, becomes new entity called Liberty Vote

www.theguardian.com

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 2d

Long lines of marathon runners for the Bandit Running Chicago Simulation Research Center in the bowels of Tribune Tower.

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

I wish I had taken the time to photograph them all, but you can see the architect talk about the exhibition at the link.
www.archdaily.com/775921/ad-in...

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