Real Estate And Religion: The Tale Of Seventeenth Church Of Christ, Scientist

Curious City

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🗓️ 22 October 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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How a modest congregation at Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist built and maintained an improbably cool concrete oasis in such an improbable location.

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0:00.0	Hey there, I'm Ellen Mayer, and you're listening to Curious City, where we answer your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:09.9	This week, we're talking about the little church that could, and how a modest congregation maintains a concrete oasis in the center of a big city.
0:23.1	This week on NERNAT, we talk with Hank Green,
0:25.5	the creator of a whole slew of our favorite nerdy YouTube shows.
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0:31.3	when you give them the opportunity to watch pretty much anything.
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0:39.8	Who's the...
0:40.2	What is going to be?
0:41.2	When we're doing?
0:42.2	Why is it?
0:42.5	What is the...
0:43.5	Welcome to WBEZ's curious city.
0:47.6	I'm Ellen Mayer.
0:49.8	People like you ask us a lot of questions about architecture and urban planning.
0:55.0	But interestingly, very few have to do with religious buildings.
0:59.0	That's one reason today's question caught our eye.
1:02.0	We're talking about that round, concrete, spaceship building that curves along the corner of Wacker and Wabash in Chicago.
1:10.0	Engraved at the top, in big letters,
1:12.6	it says 17th Church of Christ Scientist. We'll tell you more about the Christian Science
1:17.9	faith later. But just to be clear, this is not Scientology or Seventh-day Adventism.
1:23.7	Okay. Now on to our question about the building. It comes from Monica Schrager.
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