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George Halas Hall of Fame career began in Decatur The 1920 Decatur Staleys with legendary player/coach George Halas, front row, center. The team would move to Chicago the next year and become the Bears in 1922. George Halas is forever "Papa Bear," the man who founded the Chicago Bears as the Decatur Staleys in 1920. Company teams, particularly baseball, were common in the early 20th century, as wealthy owners sought a certain prestige for their firms. A.E. Staley Sr. was no exception, but he al...

Juan Miró, co-founder of Miró Rivera Architects reflects in an opinion piece on the value of American cities.

Andrew Pielage Photographer Andrew Pielage discusses his journey photographing Frank Lloyd Wright architecture around the U.S. in his book "50 Lessons To Learn From Frank Lloyd Wright." Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture has become synonymous with our city — his Taliesin West a landmark for modern American design and a mecca for those who love it. But Wright’s designs are, in fact, scattered all over the country. And Andrew Pielage has made it his life’s work to photograph them all. Piel...

The college is quickly running out of space inside its Joe K. & Alberta Blanton Nursing Building on Johnson Avenue. When the 8,600-square-foot building was constructed in 2008, Florida Southern didnt offer any graduate level nursing courses. Now, Dennis said the college has about 125 graduate students and offers four levels of courses.   "Our goal is to keep undergraduates near the middle of our campus, while moving the graduate program a little bit off," he said. "We would have the room to...

1885 The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad reaches San Bernardino. [Source: California by Kevin Starr.] 1886 The completion of the Santa Fe Railroad leads to a price war, lowering the cost of a rail trip from the Mid West to the West Coast to as low as $1 per person. 1887 The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad reaches Los Angeles. [Source: California by Kevin Starr.]Occidental College and Pomona College opened. [Source: California by Kevin Starr.] California by Kevin Starr.] Lux v...

Copy There is a saying that ‘all good architecture leaks’. While likely not intended as an endorsement for water damage, this video takes the phrase seriously by playfully sorting through some of architecture’s greatest leaks. Frank Lloyd Wright was famously dismissive of the many unintentional leaks in his buildings, once telling Mr. Johnson to move his table if he didn’t like it getting rained on. However, there are a number of great intentional leaks throughout architecture as well, ...

The earth shakes continuously as a thunderous roar passes overhead. It’s source--rapid mobilization of Eielson’s entire fighter fleet.F-35A Lightning IIs, F-16 Fighting Falcons, and KC-135 Stratotankers rips through the clouds and as fast as the noise,

Print Add to your list of the minor annoyances to blame on COVID-19 the fact that we’ve had to be satisfied with real estate porn of the virtual kind: gazing at shiny houses advertised on shiny paper, or watching drone home tours shot artsily and craftily with wide-angle lenses. Now, with COVID restrictions abating, here comes the spring itch to buy, to sell, to move out and perhaps up, or at least to spend an entertaining weekend of cruising from open house to open house fantasizing about yo...

When it comes to iconic architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the first names mentioned. Airbnb is letting you book a stay in one of his Wisconsin masterpieces. Less than a mile from the shores of Lake Michigan, in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, sits a perfectly preserved home designed and built by the legendary Frank Lloyd Wright. His style was to design structures in harmony with humanity and the environment. Frank Lloyd Wright referred to his philosophy on design as organic architecture. During...

PBS In the 1920s, Zelda Fitzgerald said of Ernest Hemingway, “Nobody is as male as all that.” Fitzgerald saw right through the hypermasculine persona Hemingway cultivated: the gun-toting, hard-drinking, deep sea-fishing, big game-hunting, bullfighting, street-brawling, womanizing facade that lingers to this day. What this ossified mythology obscures is the real Hemingway, who we see illuminated from cradle to grave in Hemingway, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s new three-part documentary, ai...