THE BIOGRAPHY OF CHICAGO’S MARINA CITY
Written by Steven Dahlman

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TitleTime frameUpdated
IntroductionGeneral15-Mar-10
A clean slate 187115-May-10
Slowing the suburban exodus1945-5915-May-10
Who built Marina City?General15-May-10
300 North State Street19th & Early 20th Century16-May-10
Planning begins195922-May-10
Paying for Marina CityJuly 196022-May-10
GroundbreakingNovember 196023-Jun-10
Marina City starts to riseMarch 196120-Jun-10
This Is Marina City19653-Aug-10
Meet Clarence Ekstrom, McHugh Project Manager1960-6228-Aug-10
Dans La VilleEarly 1960s24-Aug-10
$5 million for two garagesAugust 196125-May-09
Long days, short schedulesSeptember 196125-May-09
43 story plungeSeptember 196125-May-09
The 16-story fenceOctober 196125-May-09
Tower on top of towerDecember 196125-May-09
Mock-ups and modelsJanuary 196225-May-09
Marina City sinks its first bridgeFebruary 196225-May-09
A daring design for livingFebruary 19625-Mar-10
Marina City makes front page of Weekly ReaderFebruary 196227-Oct-09
Seveninjured in second accidentJune 196225-May-09
Marina City makes the society pageJuly 196225-May-09
Banking on Marina CityAugust 196225-May-09
First firesAugust 196225-May-09
Another worker fallsSeptember 196225-May-09
National Design Center signs leaseSeptember 196225-May-09
Moving DayOctober 196225-May-09
Star map buriedNovember 196225-May-09
More PCA construction photos1960s25-Nov-09
1963 rent paid in 2007 dollars196325-May-09
Driving in circlesFebruary 196318-Jul-09
Desperate burglars steal door knobsFebruary 196325-May-09
Light reading for prospective tenantsEarly 1960s25-May-09
More images then and nowEarly 1960s25-May-09
United Air Lines poster196325-May-09
1963 project would have given Marina City serious competitionApril 19635-Mar-10
Hilton signs on to run the first restaurantMay 196331-May-09
The incredible shrinking marina196325-May-09
Battle for control of Marina CityMay 196425-May-09
The executive board decidesJuly 196425-May-09
Marina City stars in its first movies196415-Nov-09
From Marina CityMay 196431-May-09
Photographs by Mike KoblukMay 196425-May-09
1965 Life magazine ad196525-May-09
Marina City PromenadeSeptember 196425-May-09
Station of TomorrowOctober 196425-May-09
“Downtown at Marina City, it’s 30 degrees at WCFL”Late 196429-May-09
Marina City strikes deal for bowling alleyDecember 196425-May-09
Photographs by Earl MeechMid 1960s25-May-09
Artifacts of daily life at Marina CityMid 1960s25-May-09
Property taxes in 1964196425-May-09
“Things to see and do at Marina City”Late 19641-Jun-09
Explosion of The UnbearablesOctober 196525-May-09
Polyphony IINovember 196525-May-09
Richard Hauff, Marina City resident and a “friend of ours”November 196525-May-09
Murray The Camel collapses at Marina CityNovember 196525-May-09
Ten-year-old boat thief foiled before he reaches ClevelandDecember 196525-May-09
Marina City’s theatrical flourishLate 1960s25-May-09
1966 map puts the ‘City’ in Marina City196625-May-09
Marina City: The BrochureJanuary 196631-Oct-09
Skating around Marina City196623-Nov-09
Bingo! Police!March 196725-May-09
Balcony barbecue goes awryJune 196725-May-09
On the cover of National GeographicJune 196719-Jul-09
New Horizons in SculptureJuly 196725-May-09
Photographs by Douglas PierceAugust 196725-May-09
Parking boss pleads the fifthNovember 196725-May-09
Calculated move by UnivacNovember 196725-May-09
The singing treeDecember 196725-May-09
Shopping Bag Bandits rob Marina CitySeptember 196825-May-09
1969 Life PhotoApril 196929-May-09
Photographs by Mike ChunkoAugust 196925-May-09
Bob Gibson’s demonsAugust 196925-May-09
Braless FridaySeptember 196925-May-09
Sad, strange tumbles from towersLate 1960s – Mid 1970s25-May-09
Blowing the whistle 99 times too manyJuly 197025-May-09
Marina CinemasSeptember 197025-May-09
Tax scandal of 1970October 197025-May-09
Marina City Bank robberyApril 197225-May-09
Fore!May 197225-May-09
Happy times, happy people197205-Jul-09
Marina City murder mysteryMay 197225-May-09
Pepe Martina walks from west tower to east toweNovember 197525-May-09
Retired Navy diver drowns. Police are suspicious.April 197615-Nov-09
Marina City goes condoSeptember 197725-May-09
William Goodstein, the first condo association president197725-May-09
Fire at the bowling alleyDecember 197825-May-09
Welcome to Marina City. Don’t forget where you parked.September 197915-Nov-09
Marina City NewsApril 198023-Nov-09
Marina City Bank and resident robbedMarch 198325-May-09
“A police officer has been shot”June 19811-Jun-09
1981 PM Magazine video July 19816-Dec-09
Trouble on the State Street bridgeAugust 198125-May-09
Bankrupt commercial owners forced to sell198325-May-09
“Fast Eddie” sells his condo collectionJuly 198325-May-09
WFLD moves onOctober 198415-Nov-09
A post-modern messJune 199025-May-09
Marina City apartment converted to “weapons bunker”May 199125-May-09
“A seedy, crumbling wreck”September 199225-May-09
Residents help down-on-its-luck neighborOctober 199225-May-09
Luck starts to change199225-May-09
Rat hole to jewel199225-May-09
“We’re going to electrify the city with this”September 199525-May-09
Nancy Goldberg, restaurateurNovember 199625-May-09
Bertrand Goldberg, architectOctober 199725-May-09
RenaissanceOctober 199725-May-09
New use for the skating rinkMay 199825-May-09
Loud neighbors with a liquor licenseNovember 199825-May-09
Mark sues HOB over cost overrunsOctober 200125-May-09
Wacker Drive construction200125-May-09
Toast of the TowersMay 200325-May-09
Shoeboxes full of money2004-200925-May-09
Hotel for sale. Garage included.200519-Jul-09
The flying car stunt, take twoOctober 200615-Nov-09
Small fires but safe overallApril 200625-May-09
Marina City turned into tableware to promote tourismFebruary 200825-May-09
Marina City in Hyundai adFebruary 200825-May-09
Famous Marina City residentsGeneral16-Nov-09
Marina City apartment interiors1964-200825-May-09
Geoffrey Goldberg200825-May-09
Howard Swibel: My mother chose the name “Marina City”200825-May-09
Post cards from Marina CityGeneral25-May-09
Important datesGeneral31-Oct-09
Acknowledgements

Number of pages: 124 • Number of words: 72699