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Chicago Tribune
06-07-2025
- Business
- Chicago Tribune
Chicago Board of Trade museum pays homage to city's trading history, immortalized in movies like ‘Ferris Bueller's Day Off'
A museum dedicated to preserving the legacy of open outcry trading opens Tuesday inside the Chicago Board of Trade Building, the latest step in an effort to revive the nearly century-old structure. Much of the frantic trading activity in the building — immortalized in movies like 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and 'The Dark Knight' — now occurs digitally, leaving its cavernous main trading floor quiet and empty. But in the Chicago Board of Trade Building Museum, architecture buffs, other visitors and the building's many office tenants will be able to experience what it was like to be on the trading floors, and see how generations of Chicago's leading architects created the historic landmark. 'We wanted to find a way to honor that legacy,' said Gary Stoltz, chief design and development officer of R2 Cos. The company took over operations at the 44-story art deco skyscraper in 2023 after the previous owner, battered by the post-pandemic office market, surrendered control in late 2022 to its lender Apollo Global Management. R2 Cos. has so far spent $11 million renovating the building on the southern end of the LaSalle Street canyon at 141 W. Jackson Blvd., including the new museum and spiffing up the rooftop deck, lobbies and atriums. Those renovations, along with other exhibits paying tribute to Chicago's trading history, helped bring in many new tenants, making the Board of Trade one of the few buildings to thrive as the downtown office market struggles to recover. 'We've done about 600,000 square feet of leasing in the last two and a half years,' including about 280,000 square feet of new leases, said Matt Pistorio, a R2 Cos. partner. 'I would say there are only one or two other office buildings in the city of Chicago which have done as much.' Although nearly 30% of downtown office space is either empty or available for rent, a historic high, an increasing number of downtown office users are checking out new spaces, according to Savills, a commercial real estate firm. Most gravitate either toward the city's new trophy properties in the West Loop or Fulton Market, or toward renovated properties where owners were willing to spend on new amenities, said Robert Sevim, Savills' president for the Chicago region. 'The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a good example,' he said. 'These buildings are the most sought after, and these are the spaces that are going to be flying off the shelves.' Raucous trading pits, where generations of brokers shouted orders for agricultural products and other commodities, started shutting down about 10 years ago as computerized trading took over. The CME Group, a merger of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, closed most of its open trading pits during the pandemic. But Cboe Global Markets, founded in 1973 as the Chicago Board Options Exchange, opened in 2022 a new group of trading pits on the Chicago Board of Trade Building's seventh and eighth floors. The building still hosts many other trading firms, Pistorio said. Total occupancy for the building is nearly 75%, and should increase soon. 'We stabilized the rent roll by doing a lot of renewals, and hope to be in the mid-80s in the next year or so,' he said. The street-level museum includes a theater and giant screen that illustrates how the 1930 building, designed by Holabird & Root and for decades Chicago's tallest, rose on the site of the original trading exchange. It also tracks the rise of the 1980s addition designed by noted architect Helmut Jahn, designer of the nearby James R. Thompson Center, which Google will occupy next year. Other exhibits include recorded testimonies from traders about what life was like on the trading floor, photos and a projected art display visible at night from blocks away. 'We want people to know that there is something going on at the end of the block,' Pistorio said. Stoltz said the building already gets about 1,000 visitors every month, often school tours or others interested in the sleek art deco lobbies. And with most of the open trading pits shut down, the museum will give visitors a better sense of the building's historic role in Chicago's economy. 'Many people want to see the trading floor they saw in 'Ferris Bueller,' so we thought we could bring the energy of trading to our visitors, and show the architecture of the trading floors,' Stoltz said. The museum was supported by a $250,000 small-business improvement grant from the city, he said. Similar grants were given in 2024 to local restaurants, all clustered around LaSalle Street and still recovering from the pandemic, including Ceres Cafe in the Chicago Board of Trade Building and Goddess and the Baker. Stoltz said the building's renovation is ongoing. R2 Cos. may revive the lower level, possibly transforming the massive underground vault and safety deposit boxes, where traders once stored important papers, into an event space. A long-term possibility is reopening the slanted roof's glass-walled observation deck and visitor center, closed in the 1970s, and just below the iconic, three-story statue of Roman goddess Ceres. 'That's going to be one of the hardest projects to pull off,' Stoltz said.
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
A Single Moment On Prom Night Made Me Rethink Everything I Knew About Men
Adam and I pulled into the shadowy parking expanse of Mr. Biggs Family Fun Center, the spot we'd chosen to change our clothes before the after-prom party. It had been the best dance of my high school career. There were no hands where I didn't want them, no awkwardness. This night was different. Adam and I were friends. When we weren't laughing, we were dancing, our hands joining perfectly like the two pieces of a split-heart necklace before he'd spin me away. Three years earlier, when I was 15, on a sunny day in May under Colorado's breathtaking big sky, my dad had died unexpectedly of a heart attack. I distinctly remember the sound of the screen door slapping shut as flip-flop-clad friends marched in and out and across our tile floor carrying cards and flowers and casseroles. It was mostly women who surrounded me after my dad died, and now my mother, my sister and I were the only three left in the house. My aunts and aunt-like figures were also often there to sort our mail and take us to church or clothes shopping. Aside from my dad, my childhood had been filled with very few examples of safe, strong men, and now with my dad gone, they had begun to scare me. Adam jumped out of the same old Volvo I'd seen him jump out of a hundred times, then lifted his dress shirt up over his head, not even bothering to unbutton the buttons. The highway droned above us and the gray-cold light from a buzzing street lamp at the center of the lot highlighted the peaks and valleys of his unmistakably masculine back. My throat went dry. This was Adam — my first friend to arrive at my house after my dad haddied. He didn't recoil when I couldn't stop crying, and, instead, placed our favorite movie, 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off,' in the DVD tray of my 11-inch television and sat on my trundle bed to watch it with me. As the credits rolled up the tiny screen, I asked if we could watch it again, and without hesitation, he picked up the remote and restarted it, as if it were the most normal thing in the world to do on a gorgeous late-spring day. This was Adam — the only boy whose hug never felt spoiled by hormones. But hadn't I trusted my dates in the past? There was the boy I took to MORP, who'd sweatily groped me from behind all night, and then told people we went 'all the way' at school. There was the senior who took me, a mere sophomore at the time, to his prom, then drove too fast, danced too close and kissed too hard. Gender roles in conservative Colorado Springs when I was growing up in the early 2000s were strict, severe and inescapable. But it wasn't just in my hometown — all across the media landscape, young women were being ridiculed for being too sexy or too prudish. There was no way to win. And if it wasn't women serving as the butt of jokes or having their identities policed, it was gay people. When Adam and I played tennis on the local courts — screaming and prancing as we gave our best Sharapova and Williams impersonations — men in trucks would yell at us. We knew who each word was for — at school we'd heard 'slut' and 'fag' too many times to count. But Adam had never claimed to be sexually attracted to anyone except Shakira. If what they yelled from their car windows about me wasn't true, why wouldn't I extend the same logic to what people said about my best friend? I'd had a long-term boyfriend until a couple months before prom, so Adam and I never had the chance to consider each other as anything more than friends — except for maybe what others saw: a fruit and his fly, a fag and his hag. As I caught a glimpse of him changing just feet away from me, his shirtlessness and my singleness seemed to suddenly amplify what I had hardly thought about when we were previously alone together: Adam was a boy. Other boys snapped my bra straps against my shoulders in class, grabbed my sides aggressively in the halls, pushed my head into the water at the pool, chased me, poked me, kissed me and groped me both at school dances and outside of them. Alone with a boy, my past traumas hummed up toward my heart in a flurry of fear. Maybe, I thought, he does 'like-like' me. Maybe he is no different than the others. Maybe I am not safe. At the end of junior year, after I was assaulted in an older boy's car outside a house party, Adam was the only one I told about it. We met up on our favorite walking trail to go to our favorite local art museum,and no matter what we did that day — skipping, talking, standing in front of a piece of art — he maintained a loving space between us. You can keep that, he seemed to say, meaning my body. No boy had ever given me a gift like that. But here we were alone, in a way we'd never been before. Not alone on the tennis court, or the art museum, or the creek trail, our pants hemmed with dust. Now we were alone... on what felt like a date. Now we would undress and he would peek, looking to see if he liked what was under the satin hand-me-down dress that made me feel like Andy in'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' at the start of the night, but now made me feel like what those men had called out their truck windows. Now Adam was stepping out of his slacks and casually throwing an 'almost ready?' over his shoulder. I heard myself offer a frail 'yes' as I pulled my dress over my head, heart pounding, shoulders folded close to my chest in hopes they could fully collapse inward to hide my entire body. I spun around awkwardly to grab my tank top, but it was tangled in my tote bag. My breasts threatened to escape the shield of one arm while the other dug deeper for my shirt. But when I glanced up, cheeks burning with embarrassment from my nakedness, I found Adam fully absorbed elsewhere. Adam was not looking. He was not even trying not to look. He was humming along to the Wham! song from our collaborative burned CD that was spinning in the car stereo. He looked up at the moon as he buttoned his jeans, his chest relaxed and exposed to me. I dropped my arms. Looking back now, I know this is when I was certain Adam was gay. In the same moment, I was unexpectedly liberated. The moonlight fell on his bare chest and on mine. We were free to just be in each other's presence — a boy and a girl, unbothered and completely safe. We finished getting dressed and approved each other's afterparty looks, grinning at the magnificence of being a slut and a fag together on a fun night. When we reached the door of the event, I could feel his love as he ushered me in with a phantom hand held just a few inches away from my back. Eighteen years later, Adam and I are still best friends. We've seen each other through failed relationships, sexual harassment and homophobia while working crappy bar jobs, and dangerous encounters on NYC nights. He hasn't been able to protect me from every negative run-in I've had with the opposite sex since high school, but he's always been there to say the things I needed to hear: 'You're worthy,' 'You'll be all right,' 'They'll be sorry,' 'You're so strong,' 'I'm proud of you.' I'm now married to a good guy — the kind I wasn't sure existed before prom night. Through Adam's example, I learned what a safe man does and doesn't say, what they do and don't do. He has been one of the strongest, most constant male figures in my life and has taught me a good man might be hard to find — but once you do, you should do everything you can to hang onto him. A Brooklyn-based writer and educator, Sammi LaBue is the founder of Fledgling Writing Workshops (Best Writing Workshops, Timeout NY) and basically obsessed with the feeling of having an idea and writing it down. Some of her nonfiction work can be found in BuzzFeed, Slate, Literary Hub, The Offing, Glamour and beyond. You can find her writing portfolio here and join her Substack for opportunities to write with her. Her latest project is a recently finished memoir written in collaboration with her mom titled 'Bad Apples.' Do you have a compelling personal story you'd like to see published on HuffPost? Find out what we're looking for here and send us a pitch at pitch@ My Dad Was Gay — But Married To My Mom For 64 Years. As She Died, I Overheard Something I Can't Forget. My Dad Never Wanted Me To Be One Of 'Those Gays.' Then He Asked Me To Put Him In Drag. I'm Gay. She's Straight. Here's What Happened When We Decided To Have A Kid Together.
Elle
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
The Age Differences Between the ‘Ginny & Georgia' Cast and Their Characters Are Wild
In Hollywood, 20-somethings (and even 30-somethings!) playing teenagers is nothing new. Just look at Euphoria! Grease! Riverdale! Ferris Bueller's Day Off! Do we even need to mention Dear Evan Hansen? Netflix's popular drama Ginny & Georgia is only the latest to partake of the trend, casting multiple 20-something actors as high school students. Set in the fictional town of Wellsbury, Massachusetts, the series follows mother-and-daughter duo Ginny and Georgia as they navigate small-town dramas amidst much more serious issues (i.e. Georgia's propensity for murder). A single mother to her two kids, Ginny and Austin, Georgia had Ginny when she was a teenager: Her character is meant to be 15 years older than Ginny in the series. But the actresses behind these women—Brianne Howey and Antonia Gentry—are closer in age than they might seem. Nor are they the only cast members with age gaps that differ from their characters's. Below, let's break down the cast and their characters—as well as their real ages. Who is Ginny Miller? She is Georgia's teenage daughter, who is currently navigating the difficulties of adolescence, identity, and her love life—in addition to her mother's criminal activity. How old is Antonia Gentry? Her character is 16 and Gentry is 27 years old. Who is Georgia Miller? A single mother (and 'Mayoress Murderess') who, after fleeing poverty and abusive relationships, moves around a lot in the hopes of providing her children with a better life. She ends up in Wellsbury, where she marries (and eventually divorces) the mayor. How old is Brianne Howey? In real life, Howey is 36 years old, while her character is in her early 30s. Who is Austin Miller? He is Ginny's younger half-brother, who is shy and fond of Harry Potter. His father is Gil, Georgia's abusive ex. How old is Diesel La Torraca? La Torraca is 14 years old, while his character is 9. How old is Nikki Roumel? Roumel plays the teenage and 20-something version of Georgia Miller, and she is 25 in real life. Who is Ellen Baker? She is the Millers' neighbour and mother of Marcus and Max, as well as Georgia's close friend. How old is Jennifer Robertson? In real life, she is 53 years old, while her character is somewhere in her 40s or 50s. Who is Marcus Baker? He is Ellen's teenage son, Max's fraternal twin brother, Ginny's love interest, and an aspiring artist who struggles with depression. How old is Felix Mallard? He is 27 years old, and his character is 16. Who is Maxine 'Max' Baker? She is Marcus' fraternal twin sister, Ellen's teen daughter, and Ginny's best friend. At times, she has narcissistic tendencies and struggles with feeling sidelined by those closest to her. How old is Sara Waisglass? Her character is 16 while she is 26 years old. Who is Mayor Paul Randolph? The mayor of Wellsbury, Paul becomes Georgia's love interest and eventual husband, then later her ex-husband. Paul is one of two potential fathers of Georgia's baby. How old is Scott Porter? In real life, he is 45 years old, and his character also seems to be in his 40s. Who is Joe? He is the owner of a local farm-to-table restaurant called Blue Farm Café. Joe briefly knew Georgia as a teenager, and they are now friends in Wellsbury, where they've struck up a romance. Joe is one of two potential fathers of Georgia's baby. How old is Raymond Ablack? His character is in his 30s, and Ablack himself is 35 years old. Who is Abby? She is a pal of Max and Ginny and part of the MANG friend group. Throughout the first three seasons, she is often insecure about herself and struggling with her parents' divorce. How old is Katie Douglas? Douglas is 26, while Abby is 16. Who is Norah? A friend of Max and Ginny, Norah is also part of the MANG group. How old is Chelsea Clark? Clark is 27 years old, while Norah is 16. Who is Zion Miller? He is Georgia's ex-boyfriend and friend, as well as Ginny's biological father. How old is Nathan Mitchell? Mitchell is 36 and his Zion is also in his 30s. Who is Simone? She is a criminal defense lawyer and Zion's love interest. How old is Vinessa Antoine? Vinessa is 41 years old, and Simone appears to be around the same age. Who is Tris? They are a new student who's friends with Silver and Marcus. They also play a significant role in Abby's journey. How old is Noah Lamanna? Noah is 34 years old, while Tris, is around 16. Who is Gil Timmins? Gil is Georgia's abusive ex and Austin's old is Aaron Ashmore? Ashmore is 45 years old, and Gil appears to be around the same age. Who is Wolfe? He is Ginny's new love interest and fellow poetry student. How old is Ty Doran? Doran is 27, and his character is around 16.
Miami Herald
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Anyone interested in buying Ferris Bueller's vest? Anyone? Anyone?
By Dean Murray The iconic sweater vest worn by Ferris Bueller is up for auction. Fans of the 1986 classic "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" can bid on the garment worn in a pivotal scene. Actor Matthew Broderick donned the vest during the famous Wrigley Field sequence, where Ferris famously catches a foul ball during a Chicago Cubs game. Sotheby's New York is holding a special single-lot online sale for the item, which is expected to fetch between $300,000 and $600,000 (approximately £240,000 to £480,000). The vest comes from the personal collection of Darren Rovell, an Emmy-winning sports business reporter and renowned memorabilia collector. The auction marks the 40th anniversary of the John Hughes film. Ralph DeLuca, Sotheby's Vice Chairman, Popular Culture, said: "As we look back on Ferris Bueller's unforgettable adventure 40 years later, the legacy of this iconic film-and the sweater vest that helped define Ferris's style-remains as relevant as ever to fans and collectors around the world. "In the wise words of Ferris, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." "Those words couldn't be truer in this unprecedented opportunity to own the most iconic artifact from one of the most beloved comedies in American film history." Movie buffs and collectors can view the vest in person at Sotheby's New York galleries from 5 to 24 June, with online bidding open now. The post Anyone interested in buying Ferris Bueller's vest? Anyone? Anyone? appeared first on Talker. Copyright Talker News. All Rights Reserved.
New York Post
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Disgraced actor Jeffrey Jones makes rare public appearance after child porn scandal
Disgraced actor Jeffrey Jones has made a rare public appearance more than 20 years after his infamous child porn scandal. The 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' actor, 78, appeared on a panel with several of his former co-stars at The Hollywood Show, where they discussed the iconic 1986 film. Discussing the cult classic, in which Jones played high school principal Ed Rooney, the actor revealed that he no longer lives in Los Angeles, Calif., though didn't disclose why. Advertisement 4 Disgraced actor Jeffrey Jones has made a rare public appearance more than 20 years after his infamous child porn scandal. Getty Images 'I moved to live in the desert. I didn't want to be in LA anymore, but I got my family here, and so little kids get old fast. I'm driving back and forth,' he said. 'I'm getting a place now in LA I've given up because I can't keep going back and forth from Burbank to the desert.' Advertisement The 'Beetlejuice' actor also talked about working with legendary director John Hughes, who died in 2009 at age 59. 'He entertained,' Jones said of Hughes, adding that he was collaborative. 4 The 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' actor, 78, appeared on a panel with several of his former co-stars at The Hollywood Show, where they discussed the iconic 1986 film. Getty Images 'Ed is trying to look into the house, and there was a window with a hose bed. So the shot was simply me standing on the hose bed trying to look into the window to see if I could find Ferris,' he said of his character's embarrassing moments. Advertisement 'So I went to the ground people and borrowed a shovel, and they had some peat moss, and I turned it into a swamp because I had nothing else to do. So it wasn't a plot point, particularly, it was just an attention to detail. That was the kind of thing that John liked.' Jones added that Hughes always stuck to his vision. 'Actually, John wanted what he wanted, and he got it,' he went on. 'But usually it was a fight. I mean it oftentimes was a fight because there was time and budget to consider, and John didn't really pay much attention to that.' 4 Jones played high school principal Ed Rooney in the cult classic. Advertisement The panel also featured actors Cindy Pickett, known for portraying Ferris' mom, and Jonathan Schmock, who played the Maitre D' at Chez Quis. Jones had a colossal fall from grace in 2002 when he was arrested on charges of soliciting a minor for nude photos and possession of child pornography. He pleaded no contest to soliciting a minor and prosecutors dropped the child pornography charge. The actor was sentenced to five years of probation, one year of psychological counseling and two years of drug and alcohol abuse counseling. As part of the deal, he was also ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. 'I am sorry that this incident was allowed to occur,' he said at the time. 'Such an event has never happened before and it will never happen again.' 4 The actor revealed that he no longer lives in Los Angeles, Calif. Getty Images Advertisement However in 2004, Jones was arrested once again for failing to register as a sex offender when he moved to Sarasota, Fla., and again in 2010 when he moved back to LA. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 250 hours of community service, in addition to three years of probation.
