An oasis inside the Cook County jail?

In mid-February, a team from DLR Group, an international architectural firm, met with a coterie of local government officials to unveil plans for an open, airy 22,000-square-foot building it had been contracted to design in southwest Chicago. DLR’s proposal was heavily influenced by nature—both in the building’s physical design and the larger ethos underlying it. […]
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