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Ralph
College professor and new media addict.
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Sky's the Limit, Art at O'Hare International Airport
Gray and cold. Jet Gray and 16 degrees. Coffin gray and...
Chicago firefighters save life of CTA Red Line Track Jumper...
Firefighters save life of jumper onto CTA tracks
paper cd case
Use this website to create a which can be printed and folded to create a paper CD case. For folding directions, see the . To add more tracks, a mailing address, or graphics to the case, use the . Mix CD cases created with the advanced form can be o...
Man with fresh collard greens, Cairo, IL
Cairo Illinois
Supreme Failure: Chicago's Anita Alvarez and the Campaign...
Below is my column today in the Sunday Chicago Tribune on the recent denial of review by the Supreme Court in the Illinois eavesdropping case that we discussed earlier. Cook County State's At...
Fingerless texting for the old and cranky
The Peninsula Hotel, Chicago
Sleeping man
A fall night, 39 degrees, but not for long.
Casa de Arch Bishop de Chicago
This is the official residence of the Arch Bishop of Chicago. One of the most amazing buildings in all of Chicago. It's located on the corner of Pearson and Wabash.
First Playboy digs right here in Chicago
This beautiful art deco building was home to the first Playboy club in 1960. If I can figure out how to get a link on this page, check out the photos from the sixties. Wow. http://timeoutchicago.co...
Louis Vuitton
I have to hand it to Louis Vuitton. Month in and month out, the most interesting windows in the city. That business spends some money maintaining strict control of their brand. A lady in the store ...
Chicago's one and only
Chicago's iconic Drake Hotel. Great jazz on Thursday night in their big room. Free entrance, reasonable drinks and some people dress in 30s and 40s attire. The hotel plays host to the up and coming...
Modernist Master, Mies van der Rohe
This building and three more nearby are considered seminal works by Mies van der Rohe. The German native turned American citizen is widely considered one the most influential architects and designe...
Ralph Braseth
Stories of people in words, pictures, moving pictures
One of 10,000 views from the John Hancock Building
Wanted to get an image of my apartment before moving out. Mine is the one with a swimming pool. At 48 stories it's about half as high as the John Hancock, yet looks tiny from this view. Looking dow...
Marina City Chicago
Copied verbatim from A View on Cities (dot com) Marina City is a complex of two 60-story towers built in 1964 by Bertrand GoldBerg, a student of Mies van der Rohe. It is a lively complex of apartme...