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The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald a Film by Lincoln Presidential Foundation and Looking for Lincoln Nominated for a 2025 Mid-America Emmy Award
"The film, “The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald” has been nominated for a 2025 Mid-America Emmy award!"The film, highlighting the life and works of Julius...
Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture by Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson Illustrations by Wonder City Studio
"Chicago is famous for its architecture. People move here for it, form cults around particular styles, and fight with New Yorkers about who built...
The Skyscraper and The White City: The Genius and the Tragedy of John Wellborn Root by Gerald R. Larson
"John Wellborn Root's the leading designer and theoretician among Chicago's architects during the 1880s. He designed more skyscrapers than all those designed by the...
THE UPTOWN: Chicago’s Endangered Movie Palace by Robert Loerzel and Andy Pierce
Preservation Chicago is thrilled to support the new book, The UPTOWN: Chicago's Endangered Movie Palace by Robert Loerzel and Andy Pierce."This new book from...
The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald a Film by Lincoln Presidential Foundation and Looking for Lincoln Nominated for a 2025 Mid-America Emmy Award
"The film, “The Legacy of Julius Rosenwald” has been nominated for a 2025 Mid-America Emmy award!"The film, highlighting the life and works of Julius...
Walter Thomas Bailey: Staring into the Yawning Gulf of Eternity by Dean R. Karau with Dr. Kwesi Daniels, Tuskegee University
"Walter T. Bailey was the first Black American to earn a B. S. degree in architecture from the University of Illinois (1904); the first...
Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture by Carla Bruni and Phil Thompson Illustrations by Wonder City Studio
"Chicago is famous for its architecture. People move here for it, form cults around particular styles, and fight with New Yorkers about who built...
John Mills Van Osdel, Architect, and his Chicago: The Story of His Life, 1811 to 1891 by Burtram Collver Hopkins
"There is no question that Chicago is an architecturally significant city. But before Louis Henry Sullivan, John Wellborn Root, and Frank Lloyd Wright, before...
The Skyscraper and The White City: The Genius and the Tragedy of John Wellborn Root by Gerald R. Larson
"John Wellborn Root's the leading designer and theoretician among Chicago's architects during the 1880s. He designed more skyscrapers than all those designed by the...
THE UPTOWN: Chicago’s Endangered Movie Palace by Robert Loerzel and Andy Pierce
Preservation Chicago is thrilled to support the new book, The UPTOWN: Chicago's Endangered Movie Palace by Robert Loerzel and Andy Pierce."This new book from...