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December 1 , Wednesday Why Chicago Isn’t and Is Important
Lecture by Larry Bennett, Professor of Political Science, DePaul University, and author of The Third City: Chicago and American Urbanism
Iconic Chicago is a city of obsolete icons: “broad shoulders,” “ethnic neighborhoods,” and “machine politics.” We cling to such phrases in order to sustain a sense of civic identity, and yet the city in which we live is no longer the storied Chicago of Pullman, Addams, Capone, or even Richard J. Daley. Contemporary Chicago is, nonetheless, a testing ground for new forms of urbanism, and directing our attention to these new developments is essential if we wish to create a prosperous, social inclusive Chicago of the future.
Study materials are available in an informal setting. You're also welcome to study any time the office is open. Note: if no one shows up to study by 6:30 p.m., the office will be closed, and no one will hear your screams.
Madrid—“Urban Social Design”
Belinda Tato, principle member of Ecosistema Urbano. Third and final lecture in a series on the theme, Restoring, Regenerating, Rethinking: The Urban Transformation of Madrid, Barcelona, & Bilboa
Ecosistema Urbano, is an innovative agency focused on the understanding of the city as a complex phenomenon, from a special
point of view between architecture, urbanism, engineering and sociology. Belinda Tato has directed workshops and given lectures at the most prestigious institutions worldwide, while situating urban action and intervention at the most local settings of cities. In parallel, they have created a platform through new communication technologies that develops social networks and manage online channels around the subject of creative urban sustainability. At the moment, they are working on several urban proposals for different cities and their most recent projects include the design of an interactive public space for the Expo 2010 Shanghai China, an experimental urban playground in Dordrecht (The Netherlands) and the “Ecopolis Plaza” a waste to resources building on the outskirts of Madrid. Chicago Debates: The Malling of Chicago
6:00 7:30 p.m. - Goose Island Wrigleyville, 3535 North Clark Street
Free event , registration requiredChicago defined the "City of the Century" in the Twentieth Century. But is Chicago becoming the "Suburb of the Century" in the Twenty-First? Are big-box retailers eating up our neighborhoods? Or are they the perfect solution to the problem of food deserts and widespread unemployment?
Join leading voices from architecture, design, business and politics at Goose Island Wrigleyville as they debate the pros and cons of mixed-use development and big-box stores in the city of Chicago. Participants will be Ben Joravsky, staff writer, Chicago Reader; Jonathan Fine, Executive Director, Preservation Chicago, Linda Searl, Chair, Chicago Plan Commission, John Lahey, Chairman and President, Solomon Cordwell Buenz, Christopher Robling, Principal, Jayne Thompson & Associates, and moderator Edward Lifson, cultural critic and blogger.
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Community Interface Committee 2011 Planning Meeting
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. - AIA Chicago, 35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 250 Community Interface Committee (CIC)
As Community Interface Committee enters its second year, please join us and be a part of the planning and programming for the new year! We will continue with the endeavors established this year, and we have several new engaging events already lined up. Join us and make an impact with AIA in Chicago! We will distribute an agenda via email prior to the meeting.
Frazier, Raftery, Orr & Fairbank, Architects: Houses of Chicago's North Shore, 1924-1970
7:00 p.m. - Glessner House Museum, 1800 S. Prairie (use front entrance on Prairie) $8.00 members, $10,00 non-members
Many will recognize the name of this firm (at the time Frazier and Raftery) as the designers of the Masonite House, one of the
"Homes of Tomorrow" exhibited at the Century of Progress in 1933-1934. But beyond that, the firm had a long and rich history that embraced numerous styles including Beaux Arts, Art Deco, International, New Formalist, and Postmodern. The firm also had an interest in the restoration and replication of the mid-19th century Italianate style, including the restoration of a Lake Forest home for the grand nephew of William Kimball. Frazier's old Chicago area roots, and Raftery's series of lithographs from 1935 depicting famous Chicago houses (including Glessner House), speak to their interest in the architectural history of Chicago, with a particiular sensitivity toward Prairie Avenue. As one of the firms involved in the development of Circle Campus, they championed the preservation of the original Hull House building. Copies of the book of the same name, co-authored by Art Miller and Kim Coventry, will be available for purchase and signing after the lecture.RSVP to 312/326.1840. Information:
December 2 , Thursday The History of Grant Park
Noted planning and zoning expert Lawrence Okrent presents an illustrated history of Grant Park from its origins in 1839 through the present day. Okrent draws from his vast library of aerial photography and historical images to provide a fascinating pictorial narrative of how and why Grant Park and the lakefront look the way they do today. From open water, to landfill, to rail yards, to formal gardens, to Millennium Park, the evolution of the city's famous downtown lakefront park is a classic Chicago tale.
LEED™ Extra Credit: Chemical Cocktails – The Disconnect Between Product Selection, Final Specs & IAQ Testing
5:30 - 8:00 p.m. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N. SacramentoChicago Center for Green Technology, U.S. Green Building Council - Illinois Chapter AIA/HSW SD & GBCI CE Hours: 1.5
Presentation by Melissa Ling, MetaChloros, LLC
Current green building materials are either specified primarily on emission chamber studies or on their VOC content (g/L) in the case of adhesives, sealants, and surface finishes. Neither of these fully addresses the resulting chemical cocktail of the mix of building products into a typical finished occupied space. These issues will be explored in more depth through building modeling in order to assist project managers in answering the current question – to test or not to test for indoor air quality. Emission modeling will also assist project teams to determine the proper scheduling of the IAQ testing. Case studies will illustrate the top ten issues that lead to IAQ testing failure.
New Research Projects in French Architecture: Percier . Labrouste . Hittorffs
- Keynote Lecture: Barry Bergdoll Exhibiting Architecture6:00 p.m., - Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston Sponsor: Northwestern University Department of Art History Lecture by Barry Bergdoll, Philip Johnson Chief Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opening event of two-day symposium
Chicago's Marble Palace: The Samuel M. Nickerson House
6:00 p.m. - The Richard H. Driehaus Museum, 50 E. ErieRichard H. Driehaus Musem
A lecture by David Bagnall, Director of the Richard H. Driehaus Museum. In 1879,
Chicago banker Samuel Mayo Nickerson commissioned a new house from the architectural firm of Burling and Whitehouse of Chicago. Completed in 1883, Nickerson's Marble Palace was described as having "reached a standard of excellence never before attained in Chicago." The eclectic ornamentation found throughout the home is exemplary of prevailing tastes in American interiors of the 1880s. In design of the "house beautiful" decorators employed a panoply of styles, including Egyptian, Pompeian, Chinese, Japanese, Moorish, and Renaissance Revival to name but a few. Driehaus Museum director, David Bagnall, will discuss the history of the Nickerson House and the philosophies in late-nineteenth century architecture, art and design that governed its creation.Registration (required) 312/482.8933, ext 21 by November 18th. Information:
Richard Sennett - Edges: How People Are Separated in Cities and What Can Be Done About It
6:30 p.m. - The Graham Foundation, 4 West BurtonGraham FoundationUrban Habitat Chicago Free event, space limited.
Richard Sennett was born in Chicago and grew up in the Cabrini Green Housing Project,
one of the first racially-mixed public housing projects in the United States. Mr. Sennett trained at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University. In the 1970s he founded, with Susan Sontag and Joseph Brodsky, The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. In the 1980s he served as an advisor to UNESCO and as president of the American Council on Work; currently, Mr. Sennett divides his time between New York University and the London School of Economics.Mr. Sennett’s work has explored how individuals and groups make sense of material facts about where they live and the work they do. He focuses on how people can become competent interpreters of their own experience, despite the obstacles society may put in their way.
Part of UHC’s Lecture and Film Series.
Northerly Island Presentation of plans of open-house
6:30 P.M. - Chicago Architecture Foundation, 224 S. Michigan 1st floor
Ald. Bob Fioretti, 2nd Ward, and Ald. Mary Ann Smith, Chair, Parks and Recreation Committee, Chicago City Council will give opening remarks. The Chicago Park District, Gia Biagi, Jeanne Gang from Studio/Gang/Architects and JJR will present plans. We have worked with them on what are very interesting designs. They were created after the Chicago Park District and GPC/GPAC organized several public input meetings.
The plans include many innovative, green concepts with all-season design.Information: 312/927.6795
December 3 , Friday New Research Projects in French Architecture: Percier . Labrouste . Hittorffs
9:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m., morning session; 1:30 - 4:00 p.m., afternoon session, - Northwestern University, Forum Room, South Tower, 2nd floor, Evanston Sponsor: Northwestern University Department of Art History A day-long symposium. Understanding of the nineteenth-century foundation of modern architecture has been in a state of profound
evolution since the Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of 1975. With this important 
intervention, the perceived origins of Modernism in architecture turned from its immediate Germanic framers – Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe; the Vienna Secession, De Stijl, the Werkbund and the Bauhaus – to the broader tradition of Paris and the “Beaux-Arts” classical tradition it encapsulates. More recently our understanding of the French tradition has matured from a focus on the academic tradition itself to the exceptions and loners – Charles Percier, Jacques-Ignace Hittorff and Henri Labrouste – and their contribution has come to be seen as a puzzling parallel to that of the seminal French Gothicist rationalist E.-E. Viollet-le-Duc. The morning session, moderated by David Van Zanten, Northwestern University, will include papers presented by
- Barry Bergdoll, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art
- Andreas Beyer, Director, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte (Centre Allemand), Paris
- Marc Le Coeur, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
- Neil Levine, Harvard University
- Martin Bressani, McGill University
The afternoon session, moderated by Jesús Escobar, Northwestern University, will consist of a round table of presenters
- Robert Bruegmann, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Harry Mallgrave, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Katherine Fischer Taylor, University of Chicago
- Alexander Eisenschmidt, University of Illinois at Chicago
December 6 , Monday The Next Metro Economy: Confronting the Persistent Challenges of Cities
Noon - 2:00 p.m. - UIC Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted Street, Room 302 Sponsors: Univesity of Illinois at Chicago, London School of Economics and Political Science Free event, seating limited, RSVP by December 1st.
Panelists will discuss the potential of a sustainable metropolitan economy to reduce material and social inequalities among vulnerable households and neighborhoods. Topics will include labor market attachment, decarceration, employment pathways, neighborhood reinvestment, and public service improvement. The discussion precedes the Global Metro Summit to be convened at UIC on December 8th.
The panel will be chaired by Michael A. Pagano, dean of the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs and interim dean of the UIC College of Business Administration. Panelists include:
- Andy Altman, CEO of Olympic Park Legacy Company (London 2012 Olympics) and former deputy mayor of Philadelphia
- Gerald Frug, Louis D. Brandeis professor of law at Harvard Law School
- Nik Theodore, director of UIC's Center for Urban Economic Development
- Pauline Lipman, UIC professor of educational policy studies
- Karen Mossberger, UIC professor of public administration
- Xavier Nogueras, president of the Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of Chicago
RSVP by December 1 to 312/996.8874 or via
Richard Sennett
6:00 p.m. - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbus Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus
School of the Art Institute of ChicagoChiefly known for his elegant and scholarly writing, Richard Sennett deftly explores the disciplines of architecture, design, music, art, literature, history, and political and economic theory. Celebrated for his studies of social ties in cities, Sennett investigates the urban experience and the interconnection between authority, modernism and public life. This lecture is presented in collaboration with SAIC's Visiting Artists Program.
December 7 , Tuesday SE vs. PE Acts: Duties of Each Profession
8:30 - 11:45 a.m., UBS Tower, 1 N. Wacker Drive, Michigan I Room, 2nd floor $135.00 members, $200.00 non-members by December 1; $185 and $250 after, advance reservations required. 3.hours continuing education credit The legislation for the Structural Engineering Practice Act and the Professional Engineering Practice Act were recently renewed by the Illinois Legislature and each Act was modified in the process. These changes affect practicing engineers and those working toward becoming licensed. Many engineers are not familiar with the requirements of their profession and unnecessarily take the risk of violating licensing laws. In this seminar, the participants will discuss each act and its rules, the recent changes to the acts and the similarities and differences between them. Topics include educational and exam requirements for licensees, competency, continuing education, violations, discipline, and plan sealing equirements. David Greifzu is an Illinois licensed structural engineer and professional engineer employed by the Illinois Department of Transportation, will provide his insights on engineer licensure as a member of a State Board and NCEES.
SEAOI December Dinner Meeting
5:15 p.m., cash bar, 6:00 p.m., dinner, 7:00 p.m., program, The Cliff Dwellers, 200 S. Michigan, 22nd floor, by December 1; $185 and $250 after, advance reservations required. Nancy Gavlin, P.E., S.E., Director of Education for the American Institute of Steel Construction. will discuss the underlying motivation for the structural engineering exam changes and how these changes affect both structural engineers seeking first licensure and existing structural engineers seeking reciprocity in other states.
William D. Bast, PE, SE, SECB, Immediate Past President of NCSEA and a Principal with Thornton Tomasetti in Chicago, will present an update on several NCSEA activities and initiatives: the work of the Code Advisory Committee (CAC), the Licensing Committee, and the Structural Engineers Emergency Response (SEER) Committee.
Registration - contract Donna Childs at 312/726.4165, ext 200, or via email. Information
Pecha Kucha Chicago -Volume 16
Begins 8:20 - 11:20 p.m. - Martyrs, 3855 N. Lincoln Avenue Pecha Kucha Night Chicago
$10.00 (21 and over only)
PechaKucha Night brings prominent and emerging creative minds together for an evening of
lightning-fast presentations, networking and fun. The Pecha Kucha format, where a dozen or so presenters are
given 20 slides each shown for 20 seconds to reveal their passions, work and inspirations, is now held in over 230
cities around the world. . Chicago events are among the most popular, with over 300 people in attendance at each event. Presenters for this evening's event will include the legendary Ken Nordine, Nettelhorst School activist Jacqueline Edelberg, architects Hana Ishkawa and Michael Jividen, Jack Benigno, anti-2012 Olympics agitator Kevin Lynch, "Welsh renaissance man" Jon Langford, Model Builders' Hal Chaffee, actor John Wilson, Illinois Science Council's Monica Metzler and, possibly, a Mayoral candidate captured from the wild.
Peter Exley and Jon Langford will emcee the evening. Charge by phone: 800.585.8499. Tickets can be purchased . Information
December 8 , Wednesday Global Metro Summit: How Metros are Delivering the Next Economy: Lessons from the U.S. and Abroad
8:00 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. - UIC Forum, 725 West Roosevelt Road Sponsors: Univesity of Illinois at Chicago, London School of Economics and Political Science, Brookings Institution Free event, registration required.
PanelInternational thought leaders and innovators engage in a day-long exploration of the next metropolitan economy. Elected and federal officials and leaders in business,
academia, and philanthropy share cutting-edge research and practical ideas for economic transformation. Among the participants:- Strobe Talcott, President, The Brookings Institution
- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Director, Committe on Global Thought, Columbia University
- Ricky Burdett, Profession of Urban Studies and Director, LSE Cities, London School of Economic and Political Science
- Richard Stengel, Managing Editor, Time
- Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who will be represented the Global Metro Award
- Michael A. Nutter, Mayor, Philadelphia
- José Serra, former Governor, State of São Paul and former Mayor, City of São Paulo
- Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Mayor, Los Angeles
Information and registration:
The Making of a Patron: A Conversation with 2010 Patron of the Year Award Winners
Free event - arrive early, seating is limited. Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.Unique among architecture awards, the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Patron of the Year awards honor business and civic leaders who, by commissioning and financing buildings, significantly contribute to Chicago’s built environment. Hear jury members and winners of the 2010 awards discuss the relationship between clients and designers as they partner to create exciting, new architecture in Chicago.
Interpreting LEED™ for Homes
6:00 - 8:00 p.m. - Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N. SacramentoChicago Center for Green Technology Free event, seating limited. AIA/CEU: 2
Presentation by Jason La Fleur, Alliance for Environmental Sustainability
The U.S. Green Building Council’s residential rating system, LEED™ for Homes, covers major home renovations and new construction of single-family homes, multi-family apartments and condos and mixed-use residential buildings. Learn how LEED™ homes are healthier, more comfortable and have lower utility bills. Common myths such as cost and complexity will be dispelled while the benefits of the LEED™ for Homes rating system will be featured, using local Chicago projects as case studies.se easier, encouraging more designers, builders, owners and suppliers to mount the effort.
Register by calling the hotline at 312/746.9642, or by emailing your desired class and contact information with “Green Tech U” as the subject line.our desired class and contact information.
John Vinci and Ward Miller: The Complete Architecture of Adler & Sullivan
7:00 p.m. - Glessner House Museum, 1800 S. Prairie (use front entrance on Prairie)Glessner House Museum $8.00 members, $10,00 non-members
John Vinci and Ward Miller, co-authors, will lecture on their newly published book which documents the extraordinary
architecture of Louis Henri Sullivan to a level never undertaken before. Building upon a project started nearly 60 years ago by Aaron Siskind and Richard Nickel, Vinci and Miller have combined a series of essays on the work of Adler & Sullivan, the influence of H. H. Richardson on their work, and the development of the "tall building." The massive volume of 460 pages is rich with incredible images, many taken by the renowned photographer and Sullivan scholar, Richard Nickel. This illustrated lecture will explore the rich career of a firm that helped redefine architecture in Chicago and across the country. Copies of the book, which includes an exhaustive catalog of the works of Adler & Sullivan, both in collaboration and independently, will be available for purchase and signing.RSVP to 312/326.1840. Information:
December 14 , Tuesday December 15 , Wednesday Marina City: Betrand Goldberg’s Urban Vision
Free event - arrive early, seating is limited. Guests are welcome to bring a bag lunch.Lecture by Igor Marjanovic, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis; Katerina Rüedi Ray, Professor and Director of the School of Art, Bowling Green State University
Igor Marjanovi and Katerina Rüedi Ray’s lecture and book, Marina City: Bertrand Goldberg's Urban Vision, explore the pioneering "city-within-a-city's" architectural achievements, ingenious marketing campaign, and complex political partnerships. From financing to structural engineering, their study of this beloved Chicago icon, its architect, client and realtor, fills in missing chapters of modern architecture, urban politics, and labor history.
A book signing will follow.
December 16 , Thursday Walls That Work No Matter What
8:00 - 11:30 .m. - Häfele America Co, 154 W. Hubbard, Johns Manville 3.0 CES - HSW/SD, AIA
T he first ever breakfast session of the Häfele Chicago Continuing Education Series,
featuring a continental breakfast with 3 SD learning units for the AIA.Our co-sponsors are the industry leader in building insulation and experts on building envelope integrity. This presentation will enable you to specify healthy, safe and sustainable insulation products for commercial and residential buildings.
• Identify six mechanisms of heat loss. • Define and recognize the requirements for climate isolation. • Compare and evaluate product field performance. • Differentiate products, including applications, cost and applicable building codes.
No Fiddler on the Roof: Identifying Typical Roofing Troubles for Sacred Places
6:00 - 7;30 p.m., St. Matthias Manifesto Parish, 2310 W. AinsliePartners for Sacred Places Chicago OfficeRenaissance Roofing Free event, registration required.
A presentation by Renaissance Roofing, Inc.
Registration: contact Leanne Gehrig at 866/796.0297 x 97 or via email. Mention the workshop you would like to attend, your name, affiliation, phone number and email address.
December 17 , Friday Antonio Gaudi
6:15 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Gene Siskel Film Center $10.00, $7.00 for students, $4.00 for students and faculty of the School of the Art Institute, $5.00 for Film Center members In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again
showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. Teshigahara's eye for texture, shape and sensual detail meets Gaudí's whimsy in the cinematic exploration of such masterpieces of visionary architecture as the cathedral of the Sagrada Familia. The contemporary of artists such as Picasso and Joan Miró, Gaudí drew on Barcelona's medieval Romanesque architecture and ancient Arab culture for his inspiration. This film reveals the intricacy and
hallucinatory richness of his concepts through camera work alone. Forgoing narration, Teshigahara accompanies his images with a brilliantly eclectic selection of music, ranging from baroque harpsichord to glass orchestra. or call 312/846.2800
December 18 , Saturday Antonio Gaudi
3:15, 4:45, 6:15 and 7:45 p.m. - Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Gene Siskel Film Center $10.00, $7.00 for students, $4.00 for students and faculty of the School of the Art Institute, $5.00 for Film Center members In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. See December 17 listing for details.
or call 312/846.2800
December 19 , Sunday Antonio Gaudi
3:15 and 4:45 p.m.- Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Gene Siskel Film Center $10.00, $7.00 for students, $4.00 for students and faculty of the School of the Art Institute, $5.00 for Film Center members In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. See December 17 listing for details.
or call 312/846.2800
December 20 , Monday Antonio Gaudi
6:15 p.m.- Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Gene Siskel Film Center $10.00, $7.00 for students, $4.00 for students and faculty of the School of the Art Institute, $5.00 for Film Center members In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. See December 17 listing for details.
or call 312/846.2800
December 21 , Tuesday Antonio Gaudi
6:15 p.m.- Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Gene Siskel Film Center $10.00, $7.00 for students, $4.00 for students and faculty of the School of the Art Institute, $5.00 for Film Center members In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. See December 17 listing for details.
or call 312/846.2800
December 22 , Wednesday Antonio Gaudi
6:15 and 7:45 p.m.- Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Gene Siskel Film Center $10.00, $7.00 for students, $4.00 for students and faculty of the School of the Art Institute, $5.00 for Film Center members In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. See December 17 listing for details.
or call 312/846.2800
December 23 , Thursday Antonio Gaudi
6:15 p.m.- Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Gene Siskel Film Center $10.00, $7.00 for students, $4.00 for students and faculty of the School of the Art Institute, $5.00 for Film Center members In what's become an annual holiday tradition , the Film Center is again showing Antonio Gaudi, the 1985 film by Woman of the Dunes director Hiroshi Teshigahara, inspired by the wild, undulating, joyously erupting forms of Barcelona architect Antonio Gaudí. See December 17 listing for details.
or call 312/846.2800
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