Jens Jensen

Royal soccer clips Highland in shootout

2013-05-10 09:14:01

Coach Jens Jensen brought his Royal boys soccer team to Highland on Thursday hoping simply to "weather the storm." He meant Highland's offensive pressure, and the Scotties brought plenty of it in the SCAC district championship showdown. But despite...

Cardinals gain some momentum

2013-04-28 10:04:02

Skagit Valley College baseball coach Adam Roberts said Saturday the Cardinals have been hoping to get some momentum as they head down the stretch. They may have found it at home against Douglas. Tanner Olsen yielded only two hits in a complete game...

Oak Park's Scoville Park to reopen by end of May

2013-04-24 07:43:00

Scoville Park should reopen by the end of May, in time for the annual A Day in Our Village community festival, after the Park District of Oak Park has spent more than $2 million on renovations. A ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, June 1,...

Housing project preserves quality in time of tear-down

2013-03-17 00:00:00

Jonathan Fine was walking through the old housing project looking for the right words. Georgian art deco fusion? Georgian eclectic with art deco thrown in? Colonial Revival? Whatever the right words are, they're not ones typically associated with...

Remarkable Woman: Eunita Rushing

2013-03-10 00:00:00

Eunita Rushing feels at home when she's near plants, so perhaps it's no surprise that since 1999 she has been the enthusiastic president of the Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, which works in partnership with the Chicago Park District to raise funds...

Rick Kogan rediscovers Norbert Blei

2013-01-18 14:27:00

The last time the name Norbert Blei appeared above a story in the Chicago Tribune was June 2, 1985. He wrote about the Clearing, a folk arts school founded in 1935 in Door County, Wis., by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen when he was 75. �...

North Shore Garden Club hosts garden walk “Garden Fantasies”

2012-05-04 16:35:03

Museums

2012-02-02 00:00:00

The Midwestern Vikings

2011-11-29 14:44:00

"Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America" University of Minnesota Press, $22.95 Scandinavian culture, to use a Swedish slant, is more than hardtack and herring. Eric Dregni grew up fourth-generation Scandinavian in Minnesota of mostly...

Parts of Garfield Park Conservatory reopen after hail damage

2011-07-03 19:16:00

Portions of the Garfield Park Conservatory, devastated by Thursday night's massive hailstorms, reopened today. The rooms of the 100-year-old conservatory that are open to the public sustained minimal damage during the storms because they were fitted with...

Plant yourself at a garden sale

2011-06-10 00:00:00

Plant sales offer splendid opportunities to buy a variety of plants – often unusual and/or heirloom varieties hard to find anywhere else, and a chance to talk shop with fellow gardeners. Most sales are held rain or shine; each listing has contact...

The Garden Club of Evanston House Walk

2011-10-19 16:34:51

Kemberly "Doc" Jordan, left, who sleeps outdoors in Venice Beach, spent many years working as a mental health care worker in Arkansas. He and Jens Jensen, right, look at Doc's portrait painted by Stuart Perlman, center, a Santa Monica psychologist.

2012-06-10 16:48:00

Lincoln Highway road marker in Dekalb. The original markers, designed by landscape architect Jens Jensen, were concrete with a bronze head of President Lincoln and the highway logo.

2012-06-04 00:00:00

, its landscape architects are often overlooked. Yet that situation has changed dramatically as personified by the naming of two landscape architects, Peter Schaudt and Ernest Wong, as Chicagoans of the Year.

2010-12-20 00:00:00