The Chicago Tribune didn't replace its retiring architecture critic. So he funded his own successor. - Poynter
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The job was vital in a city where architects and developers play an outsized role in shaping urban life as well as one of the world's great skylines.
Kamin is paying for the Tribune's next architecture writer out of his own pocket. He stated, 'I'm a realist, and I realize that, given who the Tribune is owned by now... either somebody was going to do something, or nothing would get done.'
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