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Article: South Loop // Museums anchor a transformation Renaissance
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 6, 1996
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Isabella Prenta, age 4 1/2, is a student at the city's new
"museum campus" on the lakefront.
She and her parents are new residents of the South Loop. "Out
our back door are the Field Museum, the Art Institute, the Shedd
Aquarium and the lakefront," said her mother, Mary Prenta, formerly
of west suburban Clarendon Hills.
"We go to the parks. We take advantage of bike riding along the
lake. We take Isabella and we explore," Prenta said. "She loves to
explore. She's learning what the city has to offer."
Seeking a shorter commute, Mary and husband Tom had been
looking for "something we could afford that was in a quiet area close
to the Loop," she said.
A 1-bedroom apartment in a converted ...