The "New" Downtown

The Chicago Sun-Times is in the midst of its five-part coverage on "The New Downtown", tracing Chicago's downtown from 1967 to the present.



While the "New" in the title stinks a bit of marketing - face it, downtown is an ever-changing and evolving entity that's a mixture of old and new, not just "new" or a place "reborn" - the variety of places and topics covered clearly illustrates the renewed interest in downtown (and here's the important part) for residents, more than tourists. Lots of pretty pictures, too, especially in the Growth Plates (image above) and in the "Then ... and now" comparisons.