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The organization started as a way to fortify the citys intellectual culture. Now its looking to recruit younger members to carry on its traditions.

Built in 1891 with Romanesque Revival styling, the unusual structure was among the final projects of noted architect John Wellborn Root

The station may have been the last building designed by John Wellborn Root of Burnham & Root, Chicago’s premiere 19th Century architectural firm.

Architecture is understood as something distinct from the building, eschewing physical inhabitation. 

“The Radiance of Being” celebrates iconic Chicago structures with Art Deco elements, including The Rookery, the Palmer House and the Palmolive Building.

Discover the 13 iconic buildings you have to visit in New York City.

T.S. Eliot's fame and his Nobel Prize in literature owe a debt to an editor working in a repurposed Chicago mansion, Harriet Monroe.

Great Chicago Fire, conflagration that began on October 8, 1871, and burned until early October 10, devastating an expansive swath of the city of Chicago. The fire, the most famous in American history, claimed about 300 lives, destroyed some 17,450 buildings, and caused $200 million in damage.

Would it be adequate to regard lighting as language sent by architects or interior designers and being received by inhabitants and citizens?

Solo exhibition by Richard Rezac on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery Installation view. CHICAGO, IL .-Rhona Hoffman Gallery is presenting Cast, a solo exhibition by Richard Rezac. Featuring a series of works made within the last year—a period whose insular time has been marked by recollection, in the absence of new visual material or experiences entering an artists’ frame of reference—the exhibition underscores Rezac’s four-decade career of invention and permutation in sculpture. Since the 199...