To the editors:
After some thought, I felt compelled to write to you about the extensive article about Daniel Coffey [“The Architect Who’s Rebuilding Chicago,” August 27].
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Mr. Coffey seems to be well connected politically, with family in City Hall, and therefore gets a shoo-in to possible plum projects, such as the State Street Mall and the Chicago Theatre. He apparently has no job history making him a candidate for either of these projects.
That plan therefore fell into the public domain, and it wonders your poor overlooked readers how fat cats like Messrs. Coffey, Holleb, Ordman, Renshaw, and Ms. al Chalabi get brought in, make millions, and give the taxpayers a badly done theater, bereft of integrity, and architecturally made very useless.
Vicky Hamman N. Oakley
The merits of individual aspects of the restoration are subject to interpretation; no one compelled the National Trust for Historic Preservation to give the project an award.
