1. Chicago School This bold commercial style of architecture emerged a decade after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, as the buildings constructed immediately after the city’s rapid rebuild became ...

Before Richard Nickel lost his life in the old Stock Exchange Building, the photographer helped energize Chicago’s historic preservation movement with his images of another lost Adler & Sullivan ...

The 1993 film The Fugitive is not only a classic crime thriller, but it can also be considered one of the most essential movies that takes place in Chicago. The movie prominently features Chicago's ...

A staircase leading up to Chicago City Hall. Elizabeth Blasius A walk through the Chicago Pedway Earlier this week, I descended into the Chicago Pedway beneath the Roger Brown mural of Daedalus ...

Chicago’s booming South Loop could soon welcome yet another apartment project, this time in the form of twin 14-story towers slated for the southwest corner of Wells and Harrison streets. Alta ...

How Louis Sullivan's organic architecture inspired Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School Frank Lloyd Wright’s years working under Sullivan helped to shape the young architect’s design ethos ...

Work on the mixed-use Logan’s Crossing project is finally underway at the former site of Logan’s Square Mega Mall—three years after developers first unveiled their plans for the 2500 block ...

The new year is here and promises to be a big one for the future of Chicago’s built environment. In 2020, a number of major projects are on the horizon. Expect grand unveilings, significant ...

A rendering of Union Station’s new Clinton Street entrance shows a new canopy, signage, and the reinstallation of blocked-off windows. Courtesy Amtrak/Goettsch Partners ...

With little fanfare, crews recently broke ground at “The 78,” a massive development replacing a 62-acre vacant lot along the Chicago River’s south branch. Last week, crews operating half a ...

The rematch drew a gate of $2,658,660 ($22 million today) and set a simultaneous record for the first $1 million gate and the first $2 million gate. The fight has gone down in history for a ...

Now, in honor of Curbed Outdoors Week, let's take a look back at one of the Chicago area's most infamous landscaping debacles: Mr. T's 1987 inexplicable destruction of more than 100 trees (actual ...