Completed in 1985, when it was known as the State of Illinois Center, the Thompson Center has reached a dangerous age: too young for city landmark status (which is restricted to buildings at least 50 years old) and, after years of deferred maintenance by the state, too decrepit for the likes of Rauner.
Eddy, a movie buff, had loaded up on film courses at NU but had no idea how to make one. He had college friends who did, however. He says that with the help of two former roommates, Oscar Boyson and Felipe Lima, he shot The Absent Column, a seven-minute documentary about Prentice, in five days. Another former roommate, Nate DeYoung, did the editing. The film was completed in 2012; it didn’t save Prentice, but it screened at architecture film festivals and gave Eddy a fast apprenticeship in the medium.
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