14 Mar SAVE THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE TRADING ROOM FROM DEMOLITION
SIGN IT.
your signature is a small gesture with lasting significance, honoring richard nickel, who died salvaging ornaments, along with john vinci, larry kenny, bob furhoff, david hanks, and the highly skilled artisans who meticulously reconstructed adler and sullivan’s chicago stock exchange trading room.
i was reminded of this exhibit the other day going through archival boxes housing stock exchange ephemera. i would love to do more pop up exhibits around town this fall.
december 21, 2019:
after spending several months working with tigerman mccurry director nathaniel parks at art institute of chicago archives
research center gathering ephemera and artifacts chronicling the recovery and reconstruction of adler and sullivan’s chicago stock exchange building (1893) trading room, the finalized exhibit has been installed and is now available for viewing at the art institute’s ryerson and burnham libraries for the next three months.
the exhibit was initially conceived of by eric j. nordstrom after several lengthy discussions with john vinci, who orchestrated the trading room’s salvage and reconstruction. images and artifacts – displayed in roughly chronological order – are designed to offer a compelling narrative on the life of the trading room, from the time the room was completed in 1894, to its demolition in 1972 and its reconstruction, completed in 1977.
exhibition objects courtesy of eric j. nordstrom of bldg. 51, the burnham and ryerson archives and the john vinci collection.
