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Cultural Stadium in the News
“Post-pandemic Chicago needs a revival. Downtown is where it can happen. The energy of our great metropolis emanates from its center. Its centrifugal force can reenergize all.”
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ABC 7 News 2/24/25 – Our Chicago: Revitalizing Downtown with a ‘Cultural Stadium’
WFLD FOX 32 1/2825 – ‘Cultural Stadium’ aims to reimagine Chicago’s downtown
Pick up – NEWSBREAK – ‘Culture Stadium’ plan could revitalize downtown Chicago
CBS News 1/14/25 – Imagining the ‘next big thing’ in arts and culture in downtown Chicago
Pick up – MSN – “Cultural Stadium” presentation seeks to revitalize downtown Chicago
Pick up – NEWSBREAK – “Cultural Stadium” presentation seeks to revitalize downtown Chicago
WMAQ-NBC 10/16|5PM: Link to Clip (Est. Audience: 5,784,600)
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Newcity – 2.12.25 – City on the Remake: Proposals By Team Culture. Part two in a series on the future of downtown Chicago.(PDF Attached)
Block Club Chicago – 1/15/25 – 9/22 a.m. — Floating Farmers Market? Parks Over Expressways? Here Are The Ideas For Reigniting Culture Downtown(PDF Attached)
Pick-up – Speaks – 1/15/25 (Northwest England) – Revitalizing Downtown: Floating Markets and Parks Over Expressways(PDF Attached)
Capital Fax, 1/15/25 – * Sun-Times | Imagining the ‘next big thing’ in arts and culture in downtown Chicago(PDF Attached)
WGN Radio 3/31: https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/howard-tullman-reinvigorating-downtown-chicago/
· Also posted: Tullman.Blogspot.com: Hindsight : HOWARD TULLMAN JOINS LISA DENT ON WGN RADIO TO DISCUSS CHICAGO'S NEW CULTURAL STADIUM
Northwestern McCormick School of Engineering 5/14/25: The Chicago Cultural Stadium, Lou Raizin, Broadway in Chicago
Jasculca Terman 5/19/25: Support the Arts—Because Chicago Wouldn’t Be the Same Without Them
Joffrey Ballet Chicago 5/22/25: The ‘Cultural Stadium’ Concept That Could Revitalize Chicago
WGN/Behind the Curtain with Paul Lisnek 6/16/25: ‘Chicago should be a Cultural Stadium,’ says Lou Raizin, President/CEO Broadway in Chicago
Also posted on YouTube
Steve Dale Pet World 8/15/25: Booth 46: Premier Episode Live from Petterino’s Restaurant
WGN Radio 8/15/25: Booth 46: Episode 1 with Albert Friedman and Lou Raizin
NBC 5 Chicago 10/16/25: New data show pedestrian traffic in the Loop surpasses pre-pandemic numbers
Millie Rosenbloom 9/2025: Reimagining Downtown Chicago: The Visionary Ideas Behind the Cultural Stadium
Span Studio: Cultural Stadium Film
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Newcity – February, 2025 – IN THE ARENA: Lou Raizin on Team Culture’s Visions for the Future of Downtown Chicago (PDF Attached
Newcity – February, 2025 – Editor’s Letter: February/March 2025 (PDF Attached)
Chicago Tribune 1/27/25 – George Cardenas: When reimagining downtown Chicago, don’t forget the power of taxes (PDF Attached)
Pick up – Wirepoints - Cook County Board of Review Commissioner George Cardenas: When reimagining downtown Chicago, don’t forget the power of taxes – Chicago Tribune*
Chicago Tribune 1/15/25 – Laura Washington: Post-pandemic Chicago needs a revival. Downtown is where it can happen. (PDF Attached)
Chicago Sun-Times 1/14/25 – Imagining the ‘next big thing’ in arts and culture in downtown Chicago (PDF Attached)
Pick up– OurCommunityNow.com – Imagining the ‘next big thing’ in arts and culture in downtown Chicago
Chicago Tribune – 12/8/24 – ENDORSEMENT- Downtown Chicago needs reimagining. It’s OK (this time) to think small.
Chicago Tribune – 3/6/24 – Lou Raizin: To revive downtown Chicago, we need to view it as a ‘stadium’ for culture
ABC 7 News2/24/25 – Our Chicago: Revitalizing Downtown with a ‘Cultural Stadium’
WFLD FOX 321.28.25 – ‘Cultural Stadium’ aims to reimagine Chicago’s downtown
CBS News1.14.25 – Imagining the ‘next big thing’ in arts and culture in downtown Chicago
Central Area plan 9/2025: https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/sites/central-area-plan/pdfs/Central_Area_Plan_2045_DRAFT.pdf
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WGN Radio – 1/15/24 – 11:27 a.m. – City Club of Chicago: Reimagining Downtown Chicago
WBBM – 1/14/25 – 2:49 p.m. – In downtown Chicago, what is the next big thing?
WBBM – 1/14/25 – 5:22 p.m. – The precision about Chicago about arts and culture heard round the world.
WBBM-AM – 1/14/25 – 7:17 p.m. – It’s the it’s the heart that pumps the blood into all those different sectors of the city.
WBBM-AM – 1/14/25 – 8:29 p.m. – A reimagined downtown and a new way to lure tourists and locals back to the cultural scene in around the city and its neighborhoods.
WBBM-AM – 1/15/25 – 4:30 a.m. – We need to think about issues about our downtown
WBBM AM – 1/15/25 – 8:22 a.m. – I see Lower Wacker as an urban festival site…
WGN Booth 46 8/15|6AM: Link to Podcast
WBBM Newsradio 1/14: Link to Clip 1 - Link to Clip 2
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