December, 1997 Columns

Hayloft to the past - Lake County (IL) Museum

A new city every New Year's
How cooperation changed a room - Redecorating
A creature of eating habits - Restaurants
Lake County Museum keeps growing - Wadsworth, Illinois

November, 1997 Columns

Take my cop shows, please - TV police dramas

West Side 'front page' story - Chicago Police Dept. reporting

Gentlemen, start your lights - Christmastime at Marshall Fields, Chicago

Lights, camera, action - Television production

October, 1997 Columns

Relax or die - Army memories

Who's behind that camera? - Business surveillance
Kukla, Fran and Ollie return - Chicago Historical Society
Volumes of forgotten lore - Chicago Historical Society
Street scene near Lincoln Park - Old Town

September, 1997 Columns

Where, oh where has my little bike gone?

Reference: Bicycling, Andy Yoggerst

Those were the days

Reference: Rome, The Vatican, Munich, Prague

Not another truck

Reference: Automobiles

August, 1997 Columns

Ellwood mansion keeps on giving

Ellwood House Museum, Dekalb, Illinois

Taking the grand tour

Ellwood House, Dekalb, Illinois

Anyone for a helicopter to O'Hare?

O'Hare Airport, Chicago

July, 1997 Columns

From green beans to abstract expressionism

Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art

Performance art in nature and church

Picnics and prayer

The 'sweet life' turns sour - Rome, Italy
Barbed wire makes Barb City - DeKalb, Illinois history

June, 1997 Columns

Chicago's New Art Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art

Chicago's MCA adds more art - Museum of Contemporary Art

May, 1997 Columns

Chicago architecture, bungalows

Washburn & Moen Wire Mill, Waukegan, Illinois

Mary Goodley, North Chicago Library Club

April, 1997 Columns

Washburn and Moen Wire Mill, North Chicago, Illinois

March, 1997 Columns

Hospital food

Preparation for surgery

Hospital patient living