Lee Bey is a big name in architecture and urban planning in Chicago-- he was the architecture critic for the Chicago Sun-Times (1997-2001), then an advisor to Mayor Daley, and now runs the "Central Area Committee"-- a non-profit that pulls together business leaders to advise the city with urban-planning ideas.

Lee has studied small churches for their architectural and cultural significance and he also keeps a blog, where he posted a photo essay/tribute to Chicago's "storefront churches" in African-American neighborhoods last year.

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