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Oct 12, 2018 · Chicago’s model of growth—based on government-led water engineering projects—was duplicated by other cities—such as Los Angeles and Las Vegas—in the 20th century.
Jul 18, 2011 · We do not usually associate Chicago with the dreaded term “sprawl” but Chicago now stands as the third largest urban agglomeration in the world in land area, trailing only New York and Tokyo. The Chicago urban area covers more land than Los Angeles, which has a far higher urban density.
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- Chicago Skyline Seen from The John Hancock Center, South-Southwest View
- Navy Pier – Aerial View
- Oak Street Beach, View from North Lake Shore Drive
- Chicago Skyline Seen from Lake Michigan
- Monroe Street, Looking East from Wells Street
- Warren Blvd. at Paulina Street
- Chicago Skyline Seen from The Wrigley Building
- Michigan Avenue Bridge
- The Old Colony Building, View from South Dearborn Street
- The Auditorium Building, View of The Exterior from The Southeast
“Big John,” as the Hancock Center is affectionately called, is one of the most iconic buildings in Chicago and when it topped out in 1968 at 1,127’, it was the second tallest building in the world. It’s called the Hancock Center rather than the Hancock building because it was originally designed to be two towers, but the additional land could not b...
“Municipal Pier,” as Navy Pier was originally called, was completed in the summer of 1916 as a freighter dock with some space for public recreation. It was renamed in 1927 to honor those who served in World War I. Its history encompasses usage as a jail for draft dodgers, a World War II Naval training center, a campus for the University of Illinois...
One of the most noted beaches in the country, Oak Street Beach was formed as a result of breakwaters, built by the city at the turn of the 20th century to protect the city’s shoreline along its “Gold Coast” where so many of Chicago’s wealthy built their mansions along Lake Shore Drive. In the 1970s and 1980s, when Playboy had its headquarters overl...
There are few shoreline vistas as magnificent as the lakefront along downtown Chicago, but it wasn’t always so beautiful. Were it not for the intervention of Montgomery Ward, the catalog millionaire who had his office overlooking what is now Grant Park in the late 19th century, it might be an industrial and railroad wasteland today. Instead, due to...
First National Bank of Chicago could trace its founding back to 1863. Over time, the bank occupied a number of buildings and locations, including its longest occupancy from 1903 to 1970 at the corner of Monroe and Dearborn. The site was located across the street from the infamous four-story gambling house known as “The Store,” operated by “King Mik...
The intersections of Warren Boulevard and Paulina Streets are in the heart of one of Chicago’s hottest neighborhoods – the Near West Side – and a block from Chicago’s popular Union Park. The community has one of the richest histories in the city, being the site of the Great Chicago Fire, the original Hull House, the original Maxwell Street Market, ...
The Wrigley Building is located on Michigan Avenue, also known as The Magnificent Mile, across the river from one of the Chicago’s most historic landmarks – Fort Dearborn, which was one of the earliest settlements in the area. The Wrigley Building itself is also a designated historic landmark, whose architecture and white terra-cotta cladding are m...
The Michigan Avenue Bridge, opened to traffic on May 14, 1920, is what is known as a bascule bridge, which is French for “balance scale” – a bridge that moves by use of a counterweight to balance a “leaf” through its upward swing allowing clearance for boat traffic. The idea for the bridge was conceived by Daniel Burnham, in his 1909 “Plan of Chica...
Originally named as an homage to the Plymouth Colony, the Old Colony Building was completed in 1894 and at the time was the tallest building in Chicago. Located at the north edge of what was at the time the Levee District of Chicago – the city’s most infamous gambling and prostitution vice-district ruled over by a pair of Chicago’s most notorious a...
Possibly one of the most famous buildings in the City of Chicago, the Auditorium Building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975 – and rightfully so. Designed by two of Chicago’s most famous architects, Louis Sullivan and his young apprentice, Frank Lloyd Wright, who desig...
Jan 9, 2023 · Backyards, urban farms, and community gardens across Chicago grow local produce to combat food insecurity - Planet Forward. Co-founder of Cedillo’s Produce Dulce Morales standing before the farm’s hoop house. (Astry Rodriguez) Planet Forward Correspondent | Northwestern University. January 09, 2023.
The Little Italy neighborhood is a living legacy of Chicago’s Italian-American past. Here, food is culture and history remains engrained in stone — from the humble halls of the original settlement homes at Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (800 S Halsted St) to the vaulted ceilings of The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii (1224 W Lexington St) and ...
Aug 25, 2014 · There are about 200,000 in the city – out of more than a million dwellings – and they are the quintessential single family housing type in the city. Mostly built between 1910 and 1930, they are...
Mar 1, 2016 · Chicago’s answer to every other innovative, happening-right-now, dapper urban neighborhood in America, this is the center of the city's art scene and high-end nightlife.
