- Enjoy Chicago Revenant, a new occasional feature by Gapers Block writer Dan Kelly examining some of the less well-known neighborhoods of Chicago -- or as he likes to put it, "shambling through the Second City." This is the first in the series, in which he visits Dunning and Schorsch Village on the Northwest Side.
- Julia Keller interviews Kari Lydersen, the author of Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What It Says About the Economic Crisis.
- How would you like to see Federal Plaza redesigned as an undulating terrascape? [Via]
- You have two opportunities to listen to author Aleksandar Hemon read from his recent work.
- Have you ever taken the time to explore the International Museum of Surgical Science and its unsurprisingly creepy displays?
- Mark October 10 and 11 down on your calendar for the opportunity to check out exhibits about Abraham Lincoln and Benito Juárez at the Chicago History Museum for the price of one small portrait of Lincoln.
- If you haven't seen the news already, you may be interested to know the designer of the Obama/Joker poster is a Chicagoan, and he didn't tack the word "socialist" at the bottom of it.
- Chicago-based interior designer and HGTV host Frank Fontana provides a glimpse of the tensions between celebrity and artistic community in the NYTimes.
- Chicago Week may be over, but Wall Blank is opening its archives for the week, so you can pick up that print you missed.
- New City talks to local crime story writer Marcus Sakey.
- Publisher Douglas Seibold writes an appreciation of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts, Jr. at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore blog.
- If you are interested in learning about contemporary photography and starting a collection, sign up now for Catherine Edelman Gallery's In Focus program, which will meet four times in the fall.
- Lake Point Tower is turning 40 (well, really 41), so it's time to celebrate.
A/C: A New Civic Plaza, A Revolt on Goose Island, A Building Celebration
David Schalliol is Managing Editor of Gapers Block, among many other things.
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