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host of @WBEZIntheLoop, weekdays at 9a on NPR Chicago • producer • speaker • island gyal • proud immigrant • #girlmom • penmanship award winner in 1988✨
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What’s That Building? The Hilliard Homes

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By Dennis Rodkin Verified, Sasha-Ann Simons Verified
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
The first residents moved into a new, futuristic quartet of public housing high rises 60 years ago this summer. The buildings – two upright cylinders and two crescents that look like they were peeled off the cylinders – occupied a 12.5-acre campus that decades before had been the heart of a notorious vice district known as the Levee. The buildings are now a souvenir of what the future looked like in the 1960s. They’re not only round, but rippled.
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What’s That Building? Margaret Burroughs Beach and 31st Street Harbor building

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By Dennis Rodkin Verified, Sasha-Ann Simons Verified, Lynnea Domienik Verified, Ethan Schwabe
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
The newest and biggest of the South Side beach buildings does its best to hide from view. It’s hard to hide a building that stands 620 feet long and 140 feet wide, with enough interior space to park 400 vehicles: 200 cars and 200 boats. For the vastness all that storage requires, the 1.4 acres of green roof does a good job making the structure fit into Chicago’s beloved green ribbon of lakefront.
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A ‘blockbuster finale’ in the works for Chicago’s Grant Park Music Festival

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By Sasha-Ann Simons Verified
| In the Loop with Sasha-Ann Simons
A Chicago summer isn't complete without an evening at the Grant Park Music Festival. For more than 90 years, it has welcomed audiences to Millennium Park with free performances from a world-class orchestra and chorus, making classical music one of the city's most accessible cultural traditions. As the 2026 season heads into its final two weeks, In the Loop learns more about this year's standout performances and how the man leading the orchestra keeps classical works feeling fresh.
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