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Article: Notable changes // Orchestra Hall makes progress
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- September 8, 1996
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`Two down, one to go," reports Sandra K. Seim, facilities manager
at Orchestra Hall, with a happy sigh.
She's counting down the number of summers left in the
three-year, $105 million renovation and expansion project that will
approximately double the current size of Orchestra Hall into the
291,000-square-foot Symphony Center. Construction, which began in
May, 1995, continues year-round, but moves into high gear during the
summer.
Last fall patrons returning to Orchestra Hall found few obvious
changes after the first summer's work. The box seat level and lower
balcony were extended 21 inches to give listeners in the first rows
more leg room. A few support posts went up and a few seats ...