Cultural historian Tim Samuelson appreciates the Chicago story in as-seen-on-TV appliances.
by Jake Malooley
As the city's cultural historian, Tim Samuelson has had occasion to amass all manner of Chicago treasures: Eliot Ness's handcuffs, chunks of the Wrigley Building, and discarded pieces of structures by Sullivan and Wright. Some of the artifacts are displayed in the home Samuelson shares with his wife at the Promontory Apartments, a Hyde Park building with its own historic pedigree as Mies van der Rohe's first high-rise.…[ Read more ]