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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 ...

A visionary idea to create a deck over the Kennedy Expressway with a public park between Chicago’s central business district and the West Loop is getting attention after a long hiatus. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tucked away in a back alley in Chicago’s hottest neighborhood lies the city’s least-known parcel of holy ground. The rear of the three-story brick warehouse on the 1100 block of West Fulton ...

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 ...

As seen from opposite end of the center’s plaza, the redesigned museum building is less squat and more detailed than in previous plans. Obama Foundation New renderings of the upcoming Obama ...