"They are domed or stepped back or crenelated, like castle towers. With illuminated clocks or fierce gryphons or flying buttresses. Urns and eagles, ladies...

"A city-owned Greek Revival house that’s considered Chicago’s oldest home most likely wouldn’t exist today were it not for an influential South Side pastor."But...

"The Morton Salt Company warehouse on Elston Avenue in Chicago once furnished tons of preservative salt for the city’s tanning industry. Today it is...

"In late 2019, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a landmark investment in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods. Invest South/West would direct $1.4 billion...

"On May 9, 1972, the body of architectural photographer and preservationist Richard Nickel was found amongst the ruins of the Chicago Stock Exchange Building....

"At a cobbler’s bench in Bridgeport or behind a Bucktown clothier’s cash register, it looked like the cards were stacked against those merchants in...

"Earlier this year, as thousands of people poured out of Grant Park after the first night of Lollapalooza, I gave my teenage sister and...

Christmas Candlelight Tours December 17, & 18 2022 Tours run between 4:30 PM and 7:30 PM Celebrate an authentic old-fashioned Christmas at Glessner House this holiday season!"These...

"Exhibits on the history of railroads often focus on the machinery — flashy, loud, showy."That’s understandable, Scott Lothes said."'Trains are big and loud and...

"Richard Nickel (1928-1972) was a Polish-American architectural photographer and preservationist. Nickel first encountered the work of Louis Sullivan (1856-1924) as a student, when photographing...