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What’s That Building? The Little Popcorn Store (opens the original)
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At a time when Walmarts, Costcos and other big box stores seem to dominate the retail landscape, the antithesis is thriving in downtown Wheaton. On Front Street in that DuPage County town sits the 49-inch-wide Little Popcorn Store, selling candy and popcorn. The structure is so narrow, WBEZ’s reporter couldn’t even stretch both arms inside. With one hand touching the east wall, I had to bend my other arm and touch the west wall with my elbow. What the shop lacks in width, it sort of makes up in
What’s That Building? The Hilliard Homes (opens the original)
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The first residents moved into a new, futuristic quartet of public housing high rises 60 years ago this summer. The buildings – two upright cylinders and two crescents that look like they were peeled off the cylinders – occupied a 12.5-acre campus that decades before had been the heart of a notorious vice district known as the Levee. The buildings are now a souvenir of what the future looked like in the 1960s. They’re not only round, but rippled. Their exterior walls are more like a bundle of ci
What’s That Building? Margaret Burroughs Beach and 31st Street Harbor building (opens the original)
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The newest and biggest of the South Side beach buildings does its best to hide from view. It’s hard to hide a building that stands 620 feet long and 140 feet wide, with enough interior space to park 400 vehicles: 200 cars and 200 boats. For the vastness all that storage requires, the 1.4 acres of green roof does a good job making the structure fit into Chicago’s beloved green ribbon of lakefront. That roof — one of Chicago’s largest but still dwarfed by Millennium Park’s 24 acres — isn’t just or
What’s That Building? Promontory Point (opens the original)
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Promontory Point, a 40-acre bulb poking eastward into Lake Michigan at 55th Street, is a deliberately picturesque piece of the south lakefront. A peninsula where no cars can go, it feels like a self-contained sanctuary. There’s the red-roofed tower of the stone fieldhouse, the many mature green trees that encircle a big meadow and the stairstep stone revetments that wrap the outer edge of the peninsula. It’s easy to see why this beautiful spot has been the scene of many weddings, including one i
What’s That Building? Jackson Park Bathing Pavilion at 63rd Street Beach (opens the original)
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This monumental building, with its two towers and long open-air promenades on the lower and upper levels, is a century-old symbol of Chicago’s love for its beaches. The grand scale of the building and the romance of its arches and inner courtyards aren’t just picturesque. They create a spectacular gateway onto a broad, beautiful beach loved and crowded for generations, even before this structure was built as an anchor in 1919. It’s a glorious spot, with restored natural dunes along one edge of t
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