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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? South Shore Cultural Center and beach

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By Dennis Rodkin Verified, Sasha-Ann Simons Verified, Ethan Schwabe
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
This is the quintessential Chicago beach. There’s a majestic, treasured piece of architecture and a pretty beach with views of the skyline, the glittering expanse of the lake and a water crib 2.3 miles offshore. And there’s history, from its start as a suburban-style country club through racial change, threats of demolition and its famed use both in the “Blues Brothers” movie and by a young Barack and Michelle Obama for their wedding reception.
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What’s That Building? Rainbow Beach fieldhouse and showers

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By Dennis Rodkin Verified, Sasha-Ann Simons Verified, Ethan Schwabe
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
There’s half a mile of sandy beach at Rainbow Beach Park and a pair of late-1990s buildings with one of the lakefront’s best architectural puns: Their sunshades are flipped up like giant sunglasses.
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What’s That Building? Calumet Park Beach house

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By Dennis Rodkin Verified, Sasha-Ann Simons Verified, Ethan Schwabe
| WBEZ-FM (Chicago, IL) Verified
WBEZ’s fourth annual summer series of “What’s That Building?” focuses on structures on the beaches of the South Side. We’ll do North Side beaches in summer 2027 but started with the South Side because there are more layers of architecture and history, in part because fewer of the beaches are on latter-day lakefill. These South Side beaches also have more to tell about Chicago’s history of segregation. The first stop on the tour is Calumet Park, the southernmost tip of Chicago’s 22-mile lakefront.
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