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- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2018
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What to expect at the new Chicago Architecture Center
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2018
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Pullman to get first new residential building in nearly 50 years
The historic neighborhood is getting 38 units of affordable housing inside a new $18 million artists’ enclave.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2018
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Historic home destroyed in fire; ex-owner furious at county for failing to secure it
The 125-year-old home had been ravaged by vandals after crews decided not to board up a basement window.
- Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2018
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Check in, then check out these five iconic hotel movies
Hotels play a starring role in film history, from Georges Méliès in 1897 to Wes Anderson in 2014.
- Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2018
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Everything you ever needed to know about the Chicago common brick
Tori Marlan explores the people and profiteering in the city's brick salvage industry.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2018
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How the city cleared out the north side to make room for Sandburg Village and white prosperity
The story of how the near north side became what it is today.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 28, 2018
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Jackson Park and Thompson Center lead Preservation Chicago's annual list of the city's seven most-endangered architectural treasures
Jackson Park is the designated site of the Obama Presidential Library.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 8, 2018
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Obama Center will not park cars on the Midway Plaisance, after all
The foundation releases a statement in response to mounting protests.
- Blogs, Bleader May 12, 2017
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Lewis Klahr’s Sixty Six is a masterful journey through inner space and the American past
The noted collage artist's latest feature screens this Friday at the University of Chicago Film Studies Center.
- Blogs, Bleader May 3, 2017
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Obama downplays traffic concerns and pledges $2 million donation at Presidential Center presser
The former president appeared at a press conference to discuss plans for his forthcoming presidential library.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 29, 2017
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The Obama Foundation introduces its architects, but not its plans, to community leaders
A meet and greet at the DuSable Museum last night didn't shed much light on the Obama Presidential Center's design.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2017
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Jackson Park, 20th-century public sculpture show up on Preservation Chicago’s annual Seven Most Endangered Buildings list
Preservation Chicago's 2017 list of endangered structures also includes the Union Station Power House and Altgeld Gardens.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 12, 2016
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A new film series focuses on the impact of Chicago architecture
ArcLight Cinemas is partnering with the Chicago Architecture Foundation on a monthly curated film series that will run from January to April 2017.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2016
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How to see Open House Chicago, from north to south
The city's annual tour of overlooked landmarks and curious interiors kicks off this weekend.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2016
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Tribune Tower without the Tribune is merely a tower
The Chicago Tribune's lease at 435 North Michigan ends in 2018.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 28, 2016
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Let’s celebrate the loss of the Lucas Museum
A loss for Rahm is a win for the city's discontented citizens.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 24, 2016
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Lucas Museum says so long, Chicago
Lexit? Chexit? Either way, the Lucas Museum will not build in Chicago.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 13, 2016
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Mayor Emanuel tries to sink CHA accountability ordinance that would force him to share power
The “Keeping the Promise” ordinance would grant the City Council considerable authority over the city’s housing authority.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Apr 20, 2016
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Turning McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center into the Lucas Museum could be the boldest adaptive reuse project on the planet
George Lucas has the chance to save a piece of Chicago's modernist architecture that deserves landmark status.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 15, 2016
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Tear down McCormick Place East for the Lucas Museum? Not so fast
Rahm Emanuel's new idea for the Lucas Museum will run into its own objections.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 13, 2016
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Illinois's most endangered historic places are largely owned by broke cities
A majority of structures on Landmarks Illinois's annual list are owned by cities or institutions operating on tight budgets, thanks to the state budget crisis and the slow economic recovery.
- City Life, Space Nov 25, 2015
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Take a video tour of Harry Weese's nautical River Cottages
Peek inside a riverfront townhouse designed by the architect behind the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist and the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 19, 2015
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Continue peeking at Open House Chicago
This weekend we looked inside a former billboard factory in Ravenswood, Goose Island's barrel warehouse, and other spots during the Chicago Architecture Foundation's Open House Chicago.
- Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 19, 2015
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How skyscrapers changed our perspective on race
U. of C. professor Adrienne Brown says there is a connection between vertical architecture and concepts of race.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2015
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Get out now and get in: CAF's Open House Chicago
The Chicago Architecture Foundation's Open House Chicago, under way today and tomorrow, is your free ticket to more than 200 of the city's fabulous spaces.