You can picture the faces. Visitors to Lincoln Park walk up to a statue, look at it and walk away saying, “Who?” Many of Chicago’s parks contain monuments that are like that. Humboldt. Schiller. Altgeld, not to name just Germans. Schiller. A sculpture that stands in a lovely, very prominent Continue Reading
Lincoln Park
The Sculpture at the End of the Fire
The Great Chicago Fire finally burned itself out on October 10, 1871. The exact northern end point of the fire is a matter of conjecture. Most detailed maps show it stopped at just about the spot where the Peggy Notebaert Museum is today. If you’ve been on any of my Continue Reading
Public Art – Chicago’s Hidden Treasure
This is an edited version of a “Maybe We’ll Talk About Public Art Too” podcast. Hello, everyone. My name is Ed McDevitt. This blog episode is called “Public Art – Chicago’s Hidden Treasure.” My original intent was to devote an entire blog and podcast series to Chicago’s collection of public Continue Reading