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molsons112000 · 8 days

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The most beautiful places in Chicago and I do pray Chicago gets more beautiful everyday......

According to WTTW, some of the most beautiful places in Chicago include:

Lake Michigan in Edgewater

The Music Box

Rosehill Cemetery

Horner Park

Lincoln Park Boardwalk

The Chicago River

The Spruce Plot at the Morton Arboretum

Chicago Theater

Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary

Shakespeare Garden at Northwestern University

WTTW

Your Most Beautiful Places in Chicago - WTTW

Lake Michigan in Edgewater. Lake Michigan in Edgewater. ... The Music Box. The Music Box. ... Rosehill Cemetery. Rosehill Cemetery. ... Horner Park. Horner Park. ... Lincoln Park Boardwalk. Lincoln Park Boardwalk. ... The Chicago River. The Chicago River. ... 875 N. Michigan, fka the Hancock. ... The Spruce Plot at the Morton Arboretum. ... Chicago Theater. ... Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. ... Shakespeare Garden at Northwestern University. ... The Ramova Theater. ... Old Post Office and Rooftop. ... Loyola Park and Rogers Park beaches. ... Schweikher House. ... The Bean. ... Chicago Skyline from the Locks. ... DePaul University's School of Music.

WTTW also has a show called The Most Beautiful Places in Chicago, hosted and produced by Geoffrey Baer. The show is filmed beautifully and features collaborations with landscape architects Fredrick Law Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, Jens Jensen, and Alfred Caldwell. These architects have created small wonders in Jackson Park, Washington Park, Garfield Park, Humboldt Park, and the Caldwell Lily Pool by the Lincoln Park Zoo.

In the show, Baer explores innovative and magnificent places across Chicago's neighborhoods, and meets the creators and enthusiasts who tell the stories of how these places came to be, why they are meaningful to the people who live and work nearby, and why their histories are important.

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al32richards · 4 years

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Ramova Rebirth Gets Real With Round of City Paperwork

In what is perhaps the best thing to happen to Bridgeport since free range gluten-free beard conditioner, plans have been filed with the city to resurrect the Ramova Theater.

The Ramova Theater (courtesy of Artefaqs stock photography)

The Ramova is one of dozens of old performance spaces scattered across Chicago that were formerly hubs for their neighborhoods, providing entertainment, information, and places where people could go out and meet their friends and soon-to-be-friends socially. Think of it as the YouTube comments section of the last century, but without all the mindless anger.

If you’ve walked down Halsted Street in Bridgeport in the last few years, you’ve probably either seen or smelled the Ramova. It closed in 1986, and has been boarded up with metal grates for as long as we can remember. Admittedly, we haven’t been called to that area in at least five years, but we’ll never forget its unique brand of scent: a melange of mildew and Bubbly Creek as offensive as it is recognizable, perhaps best suited for stripping the paint from a ’72 Pinto at Victory Auto Wreckers.

December 2019 diagram of the Ramova Theater renovation.

Perhaps that’s why we’re so excited about this plan. It’s not just that another venerable Chicago entertainment venue may get another chance to delight. It’s because Bridgeport deserves this kind of love. The north side’s aged venues have had plenty of revitalization plans in recent years, including the well-executed 1980’s restoration of the Ramova’s little sister, The Music Box Theater in Lake View. But in spite of rapid growth and economic potential, the near south side still gets treated like the rented mule in Chicago’s stable.

The Ramova restoration plan includes bringing back the main seating area on the first floor, and balcony seating areas on the south and east sides of the second floor. The total capacity should be around 1,800 souls. There are also concession stands planned on both levels to feed those souls.

In addition to reviving the actual Ramova theater, since this is Chicago — and more specifically because this is Bridgeport — a micro-brewery is also planned. The brewery will face South Halsted Street, immediately to the right of the Ramova lobby, and will have both public and private dining areas upstairs. The commercial space occupied by the Bridgeport News will become a restaurant on the ground floor and offices upstairs, and the vacant lot south of the building will become an outdoor patio.

Outside, there’s good new for both terra cotta and marquee fans, as both elements of this building will be saved and restored. As a point of interest, the Ramova marquee is 22 feet, four inches tall and its top is 42 feet, ten inches above the sidewalk. Math rules. The “Ramova” sign facing Halsted Street is about 13 feet wide. That’s a less precise figure because we suck at fractions.

The Ramova Theater (courtesy of Artefaqs stock photography)

The art glass above the double-height lobby will also get fixed up. About the only thing that won’t be saved are the doors. After 30 years of neglect, you can imagine they’re not exactly in tip-top shape.

While this 1929 theater is known to history for showing groundbreaking films that more mainstream theaters shied away from, its celluloid era will remain in the past. The Brooklyn developers of this project see it as a live entertainment venue. But that still leaves room for pushing artistic boundaries.

Address: 3506-3520 South Halsted Street

Developer: Our Revival Chicago, LLC

For realsies: Tyler Nevius

Architecture firm:

Net site area: 22,369 square feet

Floor area ratio: 2.0

Maximum building height: 35 feet

Maximum length: 181 feet, nine inches (includes theater, adjacent commercial building, adjacent vacant lot to be incorporated into renovation as an outdoor patio)

Maximum width: 150 feet

Maximum marquee height: 42 feet, ten inches

Maximum occupancy: 1,800 people

Restaurant size: 4,000 square feet

Brewery size: 5,000 square feet

Loading docks: One

December 2019 diagram of the Ramova Theater renovation.

from Chicago Architecture https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2019/12/23/ramova-rebirth-gets-real-with-round-of-city-paperwork/

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