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Old Posted Sep 11, 2008, 6:32 PM
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^ yes! they're FINALLY starting to work on connecting the river walk sections at the lower river level. does anyone know when they plan to have the walkway underneath the michigan avenue bridge open to the public? i can't wait.
old news steely. That barge has been out there for about 2 weeks. I think they plan to have it done by the end of the year.
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Old Posted Sep 11, 2008, 6:54 PM
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^ i've seen the barge, but i didn't know it was for work on the riverwalk. there are always barges under the bridges at different times for various types of maintenance work that they're constantly doing to those old steel behemoths.
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Old Posted Sep 11, 2008, 7:52 PM
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I think the Michigan bridge walkway is the most important one due to the fact that in order to continue walking the river, you have to go up stairs, cross Wacker, cross Michigan, then cross Wacker again and go down a stairway. I also can not wait for this to open to the public.
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Old Posted Sep 11, 2008, 7:59 PM
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I think the Michigan bridge walkway is the most important one due to the fact that in order to continue walking the river, you have to go up stairs, cross Wacker, cross Michigan, then cross Wacker again and go down a stairway. I also can not wait for this to open to the public.
you also have to do that at State and Dearborn and Clark.

you actually can cross over on lower Michigan (Wacker), but thats no picnic either.
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Old Posted Sep 11, 2008, 10:44 PM
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http://chicagojournal.com/main.asp?S...65&TM=66996.07

City seeks bids for Viceroy Hotel and adjacent parcels
Old hotel would host 80 studios, on-site social services

By MICAH MAIDENBERG


A former transient hotel located between the West Loop and West Haven neighborhoods is a step closer to redevelopment.

The Community Development Commission voted at its September meeting to officially seek requests for proposals for the Viceroy Hotel, 1519 W. Warren, at the south end of Union Park. The city purchased the building for more than $5 million two years ago, using funds from the Central West Tax Increment Financing District.
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Old Posted Sep 12, 2008, 6:38 AM
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Where are the lowercase letters? The only thing wrong with it is the tail on the U.
There was only one lowercase letter (it's the U, as you point out). That is a sufficient enough tip-off that it's not vintage.
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Developer Jerry Fogelson is discussing a land swap with McPier, which would give it a site for a 2,500- to 3,000-room hotel just north of its North Building. Such a hotel would provide a southern anchor for a $4 billion residential, office and retail project he is proposing just north of the convention center.

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At the same time, McPier is proceeding on expansion of the 800-room Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, with action on bids expected this fall.
Holy s**t, 3000 rooms is insanely large. Also, I think this is the most concrete information we've seen so far about decking over Metra in the 19th Street (+ / -) area.
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Old Posted Sep 12, 2008, 6:49 AM
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What the hell is going on here? It has nothing to do with the big riverwalk project, AFAIK, nor with TTC.
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Old Posted Sep 12, 2008, 11:35 AM
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What the hell is going on here? It has nothing to do with the big riverwalk project, AFAIK, nor with TTC.
They are rehabbing the stairway.
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There was only one lowercase letter (it's the U, as you point out). That is a sufficient enough tip-off that it's not vintage.
I don't think the typeface is actually anachronistic as much as it's too informal. Many advertising typefaces of the 20s made use of a sort of mixed case. But no one would have used one of those for signage on an Important Downtown Building.

It reminds me of the Peignot used on signage at the North/Clybourn subway station in the late 90s. Someone's heart was in the right place, but his research skills were a little weak.
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I don't think the typeface is actually anachronistic as much as it's too informal. Many advertising typefaces of the 20s made use of a sort of mixed case. But no one would have used one of those for signage on an Important Downtown Building.....
The anachronism, then, would be using the informal ad-style mixed-case typeface from the period on an important downtown building. Not that I'm complaining. I generally like the idea of including a signifier like this to indicate an alteration. And I take my (non-existent) hat off to BoA for going the extra mile on the signage.
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Old Posted Sep 12, 2008, 3:23 PM
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What the hell is going on here? It has nothing to do with the big riverwalk project, AFAIK, nor with TTC.
They are tearing down the bridge towers as was suggested in the Eylsian thread...
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The anachronism, then, would be using the informal ad-style mixed-case typeface from the period on an important downtown building. Not that I'm complaining. I generally like the idea of including a signifier like this to indicate an alteration. And I take my (non-existent) hat off to BoA for going the extra mile on the signage.
But that, by definition, is not an anachronism.
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Old Posted Sep 12, 2008, 5:17 PM
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^ No - I'm just not expressing myself well. The anachronism isn't in the type, but in how and when the type is used. Pre-war period usage for large public buildings would be all-caps, with mixed-caps reserved for more informal advertising, etc, as Mr Downtown notes. Later, in the Fifties & Sixties, a shift to informality on large, important buildings - cursive script, mixed caps and, later still, occasional all small caps. The BoA singage employs the period typeface in an anachronistic fashion by mixing upper and lower case on a period building that would, when built, have used only upper case.

In other words, they are using pre-war typeface on a pre-war building in a post-war manner. Hence the anachronism.

Like I said, Im not complaining - I like the new signage.

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They are tearing down the bridge towers as was suggested in the Eylsian thread...
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Esquire Theater retail project

Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance Application No. 549
submitted by 58 E. Oak, L.L.C. for the property generally located at 58 - 68 East
Oak Street
. The applicant proposes to construct a three-story commercial
building
in the Private Use Zone of the Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront
Protection District. The site includes the "Esquire Theater" building at 60 - 68
East Oak Street which has been rated as potentially significant in the broader
context of the city, state, or country ( "red") by the Chicago Historic Resources
Survey and would be demolished. (42nd Ward)


Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance Application No. 550
submitted by 58 E. Oak, L.L.C. for the property generally located at 70 East Oak
Street
. The applicant proposes to construct a four-story commercial building in
the Private Use Zone of the Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection
District. The site includes the "Esquire Theater" building at 60 - 68 East Oak
Street which has been rated as potentially significant in the broader context of
the city, state, or country ( "red") by the Chicago Historic Resources Survey and
would be demolished. (42nd Ward)


Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance Application No. 551
submitted by 58 E. Oak, L.L.C. for the property generally located at 80 -104 East
Oak Street
. The applicant proposes to construct a three-story commercial
building
in the Private Use Zone of the Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront
Protection District. The site includes the "Esquire Theater" building at 60 - 68
East Oak Street which has been rated as potentially significant in the broader
context of the city, state, or country ( "red") by the Chicago Historic Resources
Survey and would be demolished. (42nd Ward)
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Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance Application No. 549
submitted by 58 E. Oak, L.L.C. for the property generally located at 58 - 68 East
Oak Street
. The applicant proposes to construct a three-story commercial
building
in the Private Use Zone of the Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront
Protection District. The site includes the "Esquire Theater" building at 60 - 68
East Oak Street which has been rated as potentially significant in the broader
context of the city, state, or country ( "red") by the Chicago Historic Resources
Survey and would be demolished. (42nd Ward)


Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance Application No. 550
submitted by 58 E. Oak, L.L.C. for the property generally located at 70 East Oak
Street
. The applicant proposes to construct a four-story commercial building in
the Private Use Zone of the Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection
District. The site includes the "Esquire Theater" building at 60 - 68 East Oak
Street which has been rated as potentially significant in the broader context of
the city, state, or country ( "red") by the Chicago Historic Resources Survey and
would be demolished. (42nd Ward)


Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront Protection Ordinance Application No. 551
submitted by 58 E. Oak, L.L.C. for the property generally located at 80 -104 East
Oak Street
. The applicant proposes to construct a three-story commercial
building
in the Private Use Zone of the Lake Michigan and Chicago Lakefront
Protection District. The site includes the "Esquire Theater" building at 60 - 68
East Oak Street which has been rated as potentially significant in the broader
context of the city, state, or country ( "red") by the Chicago Historic Resources
Survey and would be demolished. (42nd Ward)
This mean something's moving forward with the city, or just informational?
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.....I'm waiting for them to drive another sheet piling into one of the underground tunnels again !! .....flood anyone ??!!

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^Don't say that. . . I have fiber in those tunnels and they're piling directly above one that traverses the river. . .

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