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SUMMARY:Blair Kamin chronicles the story of Harvard's iconic gates
DESCRIPTION:“Precendent-Setting Portals: How Chicago-Connected Gates Helped Change the Face of Harvard and American Campuses”\nFormer Chicago Tribune architecture critic and Cliff Dweller Member\, Blair Kamin\, will relate the history of how Chicago businessman Samuel Johnston and Josephine Dexter (widow of prominent Chicago lawyer Wirt Dexter) came to sponsor Harvard’s most iconic gates – and how those gates altered the course of campus design around the nation. A guided question and answer session will follow. \nCopies of Blair Kamin’s book Gates of Harvard will be available for purchase. \nBlair Kamin is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism and numerous other awards\, including the Order of Lincoln\, Illinois’ highest civilian honor. \nBar opens:  5:00 p.m.\nBuffet Dinner:  6:00 p.m.\nProgram:  7:00 p.m. \n$54 – Member Dinner & Program\n$60 – Invited Guests Dinner & Program\n$20 – Program Only Member & Guests \nReserve your spot no later than Wednesday\, September 2\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org or call 3121-922-8080 \n 
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/blair-kamin-chronicles-the-story-of-harvards-iconic-gates/
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SUMMARY:Architecture Lecture: "Chicago Rebuilt: Seeing Yesterday's City Today"
DESCRIPTION:There are ghosts of the past all across the city of things that put Chicago on the map but we can no longer enjoy.\nAfter the great fire of 1871\, Chicago became the hub of innovation and new ideas as architects from across the country came to the city to rebuild. \nAuthor Ryan Chester (Chicago architect and Adjunct Professor at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and SAIC) will lead the evening’s lecture with engaging stories from his soon-to-be-released new book Chicago Rebuilt: Seeing Yesterday’s City Today. Copies of Mr. Chester’s book can be bought via Amazon.com and https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo204723133.html \nDoors open: 5 p.m.\nLecture: 5:45 p.m.\nDinner: 7:00 p.m. \nDinner & Program: $56\nProgram only: $10 \nReservations are needed no later than Tuesday\, September 8. Let us know if you’ll be staying for dinner!\nreservations@cliff-chicago.org\n312-922-8080
URL:https://cliff-chicago.org/club-event/architecture-lecture-chicago-rebuilt-seeing-yesterdays-city-today/
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