I wrote about this building and other unnecessary demolitions around Chicago in this piece last year. Sometimes you just need to rant. 😊

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Yes, I just went by the bandstand the other day - it’s looking good!

Right across the street once stood the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, an Alfred Alschuler design from 1927 that was torn down in 2003. It had a 97% occupancy rate (rare for a downtown commercial building) but the powerful Crown family wanted it gone. My photo in 2002 & the same site over 20 yrs later.

Well, I was directly impacted by Reagan’s policies, specifically not being able to collect my dead father’s social security. But oh yeah I think Newt is when it truly all became dysfunctional and scorched earth.

If I remember anything from this book, it’s the part when Martin Scorsese is blasting the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and the New York Dolls, and his roommate Robbie Robertson is, like, “Can you please turn that down?”

Oh, yes I remember that one. What’s the good news? It won’t be gutted? 🤞

I really loved that one but have never rewatched it. Maybe now’s the time?

I guess but he’s borderline diabetes so hypertension probably doesn’t help.