Future in Question for Chicago Loop Synagogue and its Monumental Stained-Glass Window
(JTA) Just three stories high and hemmed into a small 5,000-square-foot lot, the building at 16 S. Clark St. is a small jewel box situated amid this city’s dense urban fabric. Exuding an aura of cool simplicity, the structure’s facade is composed of glass, metal and concrete planes. Its name is etched in delicate gold lettering: Chicago Loop Synagogue.
Perched above the synagogue’s front door, a two-ton sculpture extends over the sidewalk. Created by Henri Azaz in 1963, the work consists of bold letters tumbling over each other spelling the priestly benediction. A pair of massive hands emerges from the words, sloping downward as though placing a blessing on the heads of all those who enter.
The Chicago Architecture Foundation Center s architecture tours along the Chicago River return this week.
The Chicago First Lady Cruises â where people are seated on an outdoor open-air deck amid a glittering, glassy forest of skyscrapers along the river â will set sail for the season on Saturday. Ranked the #1 boat tour in Chicago based on TripAdvisor user reviews, the 90-minute CAFC River Cruise is the most in-depth, authentic architecture river cruise available and is lauded as a must-do activity when visiting Chicago, the Chicago Architecture Foundation said in a press release. Exciting new buildings with cutting edge design elements continue to rise along the river including the recently completed St. Regis (Vista) Tower, the cityâs third-tallest structure, and the refurbished riverfront Old Post Office. Tour guests will leave the cruise inspired by the cityâs wide variety of architectural stylesâwhich glide by as you travel down all three bran
CHICAGO (JTA) Just three stories high and hemmed into a small 5,000-square-foot lot, the building at 16 S. Clark St. is a small jewel box situated amid this city’s dense urban fabric. Exuding an aura of cool simplicity, the structure’s facade is composed of glass, metal and concrete planes. Its name is etched in delicate gold lettering: Chicago Loop Synagogue.
Perched above the synagogue’s front door, a two-ton sculpture extends over the sidewalk. Created by Henri Azaz in 1963, the work consists of bold letters tumbling over each other spelling the priestly benediction. A pair of massive hands emerges from the words, sloping downward as though placing a blessing on the heads of all those who enter.
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The son of a steel company founder, a then-26-year-old Lakshmi Mittal started his own steel mill in Indonesia in 1976 after his native India restricted domestic steel production.
Mittal would go on to buy struggling steel mills around the world, creating the world s largest steelmaker that at one point single-handedly produced a tenth of the world s steel. He founded ArcelorMittal, a multinational giant with operations in 60 countries and customers in 160 countries.
One of the world s richest people, he shaped the steel industry in the Region and the world. His Luxembourg-based company consolidated many of the steel mills along Northwest Indiana s lakeshore under the ArcelorMittal banner in the mid-2000s. That came after an import crisis wiped out much of the American steel industry, resulting in the consolidation of long-running companies like Inland Steel, Bethlehem Steel and LTV.