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I’m gonna guess that some of you are as obsessed as I am with the Marina Towers in Chicago. (Or, as obsessed as Wilco.) Anyway! There’s a new book out on Bertrand Goldberg’s iconic apartment buildings and it’s interesting to compare the then and now. […]
(AKA, still looking good despite some fugly porch chairs.)
I want to write a story with characters living here, though Jeffrey Eugenides has already come close.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l429d3QYk41qbltjyo1_500.jpg)
I’m gonna guess that some of you are as obsessed as I am with the Marina Towers in Chicago. (Or, as obsessed as Wilco.) Anyway! There’s a new book out on Bertrand Goldberg’s iconic apartment buildings and it’s interesting to compare the then and now. […]
(AKA, still looking good despite some fugly porch chairs.)
I want to write a story with characters living here, though Jeffrey Eugenides has already come close.
We took the idea to Cleveland, and we took it to Saint Louis. In Chicago Ken said he had to take me to Millennium Park—no one could leave Chicago without going to Millennium Park.
At the corner of Michigan Avenue, five or six men had set up folding chairs. It was windy; across the street to our right was a bridge, and two stories down, a river. Office towers rippled in the water, green and glass and cold. One of the men asked Ken if he wanted a shine.
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