Chicago Tribune touts Detroit's cultural revival

The Chicago Tribune finds the spark of creativity alive and well in Detroit as exemplified at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.

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But as Detroit's industrial economy falters, the city is enjoying an entertainment and cultural revival, including new sports stadiums, new casinos and a new symphony hall.

The city has even made a couple of lists of places to visit in 2008.

"There's a visible renaissance going on in downtown Detroit," said Reed Kroloff, a former architecture critic who recently moved to the area to direct the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, a Detroit suburb. "A lot of people think Detroit does nothing except decline."

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