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Audio Tour Added to Chicago Model City Exhibition Provided by Chicago Architecture Foundation  |
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A new audio tour featuring stories from Chicago urban planners, architects, historians, and Chicago Architecture Foundation staff is now at the Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan. The listening devices are available to rent from the shop, or visitors can download the tour free from iTunes and from www.architecture.org/iTunes/AudioTourRSS.xml
The audio tour consists of 23 different audio tracks that coordinate with stopping points along the popular Chicago Model City exhibition. The exhibition is open daily and includes a highly detailed scale model of Chicago, spanning four square miles from Lake Michigan to Halsted and from Oak Street to 16th Street.
The audio tours elaborate on topics such as the making of the model, the introduction of public transportation, and even how Chicago's streets got their names. The tour also highlights specific neighborhoods, discussing urban renewal and the future of Chicago as a city.
"The audio tour is a fun, surprising way to explore this exhibition," said, Katharine Keleman, Chicago Architecture Foundation Associate Curator. "It gives visitors a chance to discover the people and plans that have shaped Chicago as well as giving them some behind-the-scenes insight into the stories in Chicago Model City,"
The entire audio tour is 50 minutes long, but it is designed for visitors to listen to the tracks they prefer. The list consists of:
100 Introduction
Gregory Dreicer and Kate Keleman, Chicago Architecture Foundation
101 The Chicago Model
Lynn Osmond, Chicago Architecture Foundation
102 Making the Chicago Model
Catherine Tinker and John Welin, Columbian Model and Exhibit Works
103 Rock Island Railroad
Michael Weiland, Chicago Architecture Foundation docent
104 Lighting the Model
Avraham Mor, Lightswitch Architectural
105 Millennium Park
Linda Marcus, Chicago Architecture Foundation docent
106 Streeterville
Tom Drebenstedt, Chicago Architecture Foundation docent
107 Renumbering Chicago Street Addresses
Jennifer Masengarb, Chicago Architecture Foundation
108 Union Pacific Railroad
Michael Weiland, Chicago Architecture Foundation docent
109 Chicago River
Tom Carmichael, Chicago Architecture Foundation docent
110 Great Chicago Fire of 1871
Jean Linsner, Chicago Architecture Foundation
111 The Grid
Jennifer Masengarb, Chicago Architecture Foundation
112 Wacker's Manual of the Plan of Chicago
Jean Linsner, Chicago Architecture Foundation
113 The Plan of Chicago
Bill Savage, Northwestern University
114 The 'L'
Graham Garfield, Chicago Transit Authority
115 Eisenhower Expressway
Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois-Chicago
116 Concentric Zone Model
Kate Keleman, Chicago Architecture Foundation
117 Remembering Cabrini-Green
Raymond Gunn, former resident of the Cabrini-Green public housing complex
118 Ludwig Hilberseimer's Planning Ideas
Kevin Harrington, Illinois Institute of Technology
119 Urban Renewal on Chicago's Near South Side
Michael Carriere, Milwaukee School of Engineering
120 The O'Hare Region
Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois-Chicago
121 Chicago's Global Connections
Henry Binford, Northwestern University
122 Climate Change as a Regional Challenge
Jesse Elam, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
123 Green Renovation of the Willis Tower
Sara Beardsley, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture
The Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) is a nonprofit organization offering architecture tours, free exhibitions, and youth and adult education programs. Current exhibitions are Chicago Model City and B Like Burnham; the Chicago Architecture Foundation is located at 224 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60604. For further information visit www.architecture.org or call (312) 922-3432.
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