Category: Photography

• Pullman: The Man, the Company, the Historic Park by Kenneth Schoon

  

                 Kenneth Schoon, professor emeritus at Indiana University Northwest, has immersed himself in the history of the Greater Chicago/Northwest Indiana area for decades, writing books starting from the area’s earliest beginnings such as “Calumet Beginnings: Ancient Shorelines and Settlements at the South End of Lake Michigan” and “Swedish Settlements on the South Shore of Lake…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  September 6, 2021

  American History, Architecture, Barack Obama, Chicago, Historic Architecture, History, Photography

  Chicago, Florence Hotel, historic, Historic Architecture, Historic Preservation, Historic Pullman Foundation, History Press, Kenneth Schoon, Museum, Non-fiction, Pullman, Pullman National Monument

• THE 17TH ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARDS ANNOUNCE 2020 AWARD RECIPIENTS

  

  American Book Fest has announced the winners and finalists of The 2020 Best Book Awards. Awards were presented for titles published in 2018-2020. Jeffrey Keen, President and CEO of American Book Fest said this year’s contest yielded over 2,000 entries from mainstream and independent publishers. These were then narrowed down to over 400 winners and finalists in 90…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  March 28, 2021

  Animals, Architecture, Artists, Authors, Autobiography, Biography, Canines, Center Street Publishing, Cookbooks, Culture, Family, Female Voices, Fiction, Food, Food History, HarperCollins, Historic Architecture, History, Indiana University, Indiana University Press, Louise Nevelson, Penguin Random House, Photography, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Recipes, Science Fiction, self-help, Uncategorized

  American Book Fest, Book awards, Forge, HarperCollins, Independent publishing houses, John Wiley and Sons, NYU Press, Oxford Press, Penguin Random House, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Sounds True, The White House Historical Association

• Honoring Chicago’s South Side Architecture

  

  World famous for its architecture, Chicago boasts works by such greats ranging from the Frank Lloyd Wright to William LeBaron Jenney, designer of the world’s first skyscraper. No other city in the world has more Ludwig Mies van der Rohe buildings than Chicago. Yet for many, the largest landmass in the city is like an…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  October 31, 2019

  Architecture, Author event, Photography, Uncategorized

  Architecture, Chicago South Side, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Lee Bey, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Photography