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Lee Bey, at right, with designer Bruce Mau and architect Stanley Tigerman.

Though not a trained architect, Lee Bey served as an architecture critic for the Chicago Sun Times and as an advisor for design and urban planning to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. Currently working with the international architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merril, Lee is in a unique position — it allows him to act as the voice of Chicago architecture.


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David Elfving is a Chicago architectural aficionado and proprietor of Greasy Skillet.

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