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...Elmira Loop...
...wonder residents call it Starship Chicago, when they are not calling it ruder names. It seems not so much to have risen in the Loop as to have landed there. The outside of the futuristic new State of Illinois Center has three tiers of curving glass setbacks fanning out in a vertically striped polygon. A canopy of pink and white glass panels dresses the base; a sliced-cylinder skylight emerges at the top. Inside, in a light-filled atrium, salmon pink terraces climb for 17 stories around a circular plaza. Glass elevators rise and fall along the outside...
...late 1960s and 1970s. Patti, now 32, and Ron, now 26, grew up in California. Both flirted with counterculturalism, she carrying on with a member of the Eagles rock group, he growing his hair long and dropping out of Yale to dance professionally. Nancy Reagan was thrown for a loop by it all, but she made peace. Her relationships with her husband's two children from his earlier marriage to Actress Jane Wyman have seemed more fundamentally troubled. The crosscurrents can be fierce. "Yeah," says young Ron, "our family is somewhat unusual. We are people with very different personalities...
...Smith, a photo-supply manager, recalls how he once lived overlooking a brick alley near Chicago's downtown Loop. That was before the alley was stolen. "Every three nights or so, somebody would take about 50 bricks," says Smith. "It stopped only when the city paved it over." Each day bricks from abandoned buildings and old alleys in Midwestern cities are pilfered, sold and shipped out of town on boxcars. Ultimately they end up in Sunbelt states, where there is great demand for used brick. "They're advertising homes built with Chicago brick," says John Dean, of Chicago...
That it has a working crew becomes clear as the boat enters the lock. With practiced ease, Deck Hand Basil Kuvshinikov, whose name and accent both attest to his origins in the Russian city of Smolensk, steps ashore and walks beside the slowly moving boat, a loop of its thick forward hawser over his shoulder. As he slips the loop over one of the mushroom-shaped bollards onshore, another deck hand, a stocky, bearded man named Tim Burke, tightens the line, snubbing the Peckinpaugh to the side of the lock...