He is editor and publisher of Loop North News, a news and information website serving the Loop and Near North neighborhoods of downtown Chicago. LoopNorth.com has published more than 3,400 stories since 2007. The site was a winner of Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in the category of Best Neighborhood / Community News Website in 2018 and 2019 and was a finalist in 2014 and 2017.

He was a radio news director, reporter, and anchor for more than a dozen stations, networks, and news outlets, including Rivet Radio in Chicago and ABC Radio Networks.

Steven was co-creator with Dr. Neal Samors of two books about Chicago, Chicago’s River: At Work And At Play (Chicago’s Books Press, 2014) and Changing Chicago: A Portrait in Postcards and Photos (Chicago’s Books Press, 2017).

His experience with Marina City includes living there for ten years, giving him access to virtually the entire complex. His first layer of history contained 181,500 words and 831 images. Contributing to the extensive research were 95 individuals, 56 organizations, 21 websites, and 11 properties.

Contact Steven at sdahlman@loopnorth.com.

(Left, top) Daredevils (each in their own way) Nick Wallenda and Steven Dahlman (right in photo). (Bottom) Dahlman and Clarence Ekstrom, project manager of the Marina City project for James McHugh Construction Company.

After Kitsch, in 1984, he produced and styled commercial and fashion photography in Chicago with Jay King, a legendary street photographer.

In 1991, Jameson signed on as manager of Kelmscott Gallery, America’s foremost seller of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

In 1998, he opened ArchiTech Gallery in downtown Chicago with work he bought or consigned from Kelmscott. The River North gallery was one of the few commercial galleries in the world specializing in archival architectural drawings, renderings, photographs, engravings, and original prints. ArchiTech has placed the work of important architects and designers into top museum and private collections throughout the country.

Since closing the gallery, Jameson works as a freelance writer and architectural historian in magazine and book articles about architecture and design. In 2013, Jameson wrote the biography of Alfonso Iannelli that upended the Frank Lloyd Wright story. Following its publication, in 2015 he wrote Everyday Modern: The Industrial Design of Alfonso Iannelli that added to the historical record. With these two books, Jameson became the authority on the life of Alfonso Iannelli.

Upcoming are the field guide for all Bruce Goff structures, a book of architectural essays focusing on “why” famous buildings were built, and a biography of Mies van der Rohe.