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Lanier
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Fascinating Facts. Well written. Amazing survey of Chicagoan Histories.
— Apr 12, 2026 03:00PM
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Manuel Colón
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This is as far as I'm going with this book. It's a DNF for me
— Feb 17, 2026 06:25AM
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Manuel Colón
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I'm trying my best to get through this. But it is dense!!
— Feb 03, 2026 11:12AM
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Lucy B
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Great, dense (lots of names) but cool perspective on the forces that shaped Chicago mid-1940s to 1960s.
— Jan 31, 2026 07:43AM
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Manuel Colón
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So many names, I'll need jot them down along the way for further research
— Jan 21, 2026 05:51AM
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Manuel Colón
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This deep dive lover letter to Chicago
— Jan 15, 2026 07:19AM
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Lanier
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More than anything Chicago yearned…
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“There’s something incomplete about this city and its people, and it fascinates me. It seems to urge one on to completion. Everything, here still seems possible.
I love the air of newness, of expectation around me.
Yes, I want to stay.”
László Moholy-Nagy
These from previous days’ reads! I can’t find most recent notes?
Loved to live there one day?
— Oct 22, 2025 01:33AM
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2:25.20
“There’s something incomplete about this city and its people, and it fascinates me. It seems to urge one on to completion. Everything, here still seems possible.
I love the air of newness, of expectation around me.
Yes, I want to stay.”
László Moholy-Nagy
These from previous days’ reads! I can’t find most recent notes?
Loved to live there one day?
Lanier
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"The illiterate of the Future will be the man who doesn’t understand photography,” Walter Benjamin - Moholy - in his 1931 Essay “A Short History of Photography”
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2:45.35
Charles Morris' Letter of Intro to John Dewey - Progressivism Philosopher - with driving sense to: Experience, Experiment and Connections to Jane Addams [Hull House 1889] in her Academic Theory with Social Reform collaborating movements.
— Oct 15, 2025 05:49AM
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2:45.35
Charles Morris' Letter of Intro to John Dewey - Progressivism Philosopher - with driving sense to: Experience, Experiment and Connections to Jane Addams [Hull House 1889] in her Academic Theory with Social Reform collaborating movements.
Lanier
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So much I’m learning about Chicago. Elizabeth Wood ~ Japanese American
who actually brought Pride to the Projects; gentrifying them for those who needed them the most.
She provided clean and safe homes with playgrounds and clinics on each property. - “Fear of tenants becoming snobbish.”
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Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1944 “A Street in Brownsville” ~ “…challenging Langston Hughes as Premier Black Poet.”
— Oct 09, 2025 03:45PM
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who actually brought Pride to the Projects; gentrifying them for those who needed them the most.
She provided clean and safe homes with playgrounds and clinics on each property. - “Fear of tenants becoming snobbish.”
and
Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1944 “A Street in Brownsville” ~ “…challenging Langston Hughes as Premier Black Poet.”






