Category Archives: Chicago

Historian’s Road Trip

Posted on October 23, 2012 by LaDale Winling

This summer my family took a road trip out to the western Chicago suburbs to support some research I have been doing on the creation of Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne was located near Lemont along the Illinois and Michigan Canal … Continue reading →

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Obama Presidential Library Part 2

Posted on August 25, 2012 by LaDale Winling

To continue my discussion from Part 1, not only should the Obama Presidential Library and Museum be located in Chicago, it should be affiliated with the University of Chicago. This is not a particularly controversial proposition — many of the … Continue reading →

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The Obama Presidential Library, Part One

Posted on August 2, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Discussion about the location of the Obama Presidential Library and Museum has been surfacing in a handful of media sources (and fan sites). Most recently, the Chicago Sun-Times published an article with pre-emptive criticism of an effort to bring the … Continue reading →

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Historic Aerial Photography – Soil Conservation Service

Posted on June 16, 2012 by LaDale Winling

Next up in blogging the book project is a return to aerial photography. Background: during the New Deal, agriculture was a key priority, and soil a specific component of that — see, for example, Don Worster’s The Dust Bowl. So … Continue reading →

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Holdout Oriented Design

Posted on January 20, 2011 by LaDale Winling

I’m going to have an article coming out in the Journal of Planning History, part of an issue on postwar university planning and urban renewal. My contribution is about the University of Chicago and comes from my dissertation research. The … Continue reading →

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A Beginner’s Guide to Research at Archives II (part 1)

Posted on May 15, 2010 by LaDale Winling

Ruby Button If you’re reading this, you’re probably quite excited at the prospect of research at what is likely the greatest archival repository in the country, and one of the best in the world, but somewhat bewildered about what the … Continue reading →

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University of Chicago Sit-In, 1962

Posted on April 13, 2010 by LaDale Winling

I thought it worth re-visiting this find from a while back at the request of Angus Johnston. In my dissertation, “Building the Ivory Tower: Campus Planning, University Development, and the Politics of Urban Space,” I research the development of American … Continue reading →

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The Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago

Posted on August 9, 2009 by LaDale Winling

A brief, introductory review. Light and open on the inside. Pretty interesting looking on the outside. The new bridge creates some interesting new views. All in all good, but not as good as the original building. More to come?

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Murder Mystery Flicks

Posted on February 13, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Call Northside 777 and The Naked City. The former film is about a Chicago Times reporter’s investigation of a decade-old murder of a police officer in the Second City; it has a strong affinities with the latter, set as a … Continue reading →

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On the Beeb

Posted on February 4, 2009 by LaDale Winling

Desperate for a photo of the north end of the Monadnock Building, somebody from the BBC contacted me about using this photo on my flickr stream. I said “ok” and you can see a multimedia slideshow here. It takes an … Continue reading →

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