The Gilded Age might seem like a distant memory, but not all of the mansions constructed by the city’s well-heeled social elite between the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and the early 20th Century ...

Midwestern niceness is real. Moving to the Midwest is like joining a club that wants you as a member. No one will shove you out of the way when they are in a rush. You can ask for directions, get ...

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 ...

A third riverfront megadevelopment will rise roughly halfway between Lincoln Yards and The 78, on 30 acres of Tribune Media-owned land in River West. Known as the River District, the 8.5 million ...

Streeterville Located just east of the Magnificent Mile, Streeterville is one of Chicago’s most expensive high-rise neighborhoods. It is also named after wannabe gunrunner and squatter George ...

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 ...

Chicago is known for its downtown sculptures like Picasso’s enigmatic creation in Daley Plaza and Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate AKA “the bean,” but the city has longed served as a canvas for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chicago is famous for its architecture, but there's more to the city than its sky-high towers. Throughout the city's neighborhoods, a wide variety of residential architecture can be found. Some ...

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 ...