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Many Chicago buyers and sellers manage to close on a home amid the pandemic, but others have not been so lucky. For Cameron Leavitt, a construction manager who was in the middle of buying a unit ...

If one in every ten single-family lot added an accessory unit, Chicago would have 237,000 more homes by 2040. Getty Images Chicago offers a diverse mix of places to live, from soaring high-rises ...

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 ...

These orderly twin residential towers on N. Lake Shore Drive that face Lake Michigan embody the “less-is-more” philosophy of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. When completed in 1951, some found the ...

For trickier items Linens, towels, sheets: Local animal shelters will gladly take these items to use for bath time, make bedding, and craft new toys. A good place to start in Chicago is The Anti ...

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 ...

Chicago’s temple of transportationIn 1925, when Union Station opened nearly two decades after it was proposed, the Chicago Tribune wrote: “In respect to both architecture and utility, the new ...

In 2017, then Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced a plan to build three new branch libraries that would be “co-located” with affordable and Chicago Housing Authority apartments. The ...

The bridges over the Chicago River are the city’s most iconic. But there’s much more to our history than the heavy, steel bascule bridges. Many of the city’s landmarks are bridges, we’ve ...

Morgan CTA stop The Chicago Transit Authority completed a number of projects during the past decade which deserve mentioning: the Cermak-McCormick Place stop in 2015, the redesigned Washington ...

The losses in Chicago’s built environment go far beyond the buildings and their architectural features. These places are symbols of greater failures: vacant lots represent a dearth of affordable ...