Articles Tagged with ''Chicago''

The Chicago Tribune reports that President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have selected Jackson Park on the city’s south side as the future home for the Obama Presidential Center.

When Barack Obama was announced victorious in the 2008 presidential election—the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office—he told the crowd of tens of thousands gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park, “This is your victory.”

It’s not quite Brexit. But on Friday George Lucas announced that he had abandoned plans to build his Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Chicago.

For some, architecture has a unique ability to transpose fantasies into reality. And if you were an urbane heterosexual male in the last half of the 20th century, there weren’t many better fantasy generators than Playboy.

Related Midwest has signed a deal to develop a vacant 62-acre parcel of land linking the city’s South Loop and Chinatown neighborhoods, the Chicago Tribune reports.

An architect works with a sprawling one-of-a-kind lot to create an urban oasis for a family.

A traveling exhibition, now closed, is well documented in a book of the same name.

Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture and Roman and Williams convert an athletic club into a hotel, imaginatively combining modern and historic architectural flourishes for an updated approach to play and respite.

By nearly all critical accounts, Chicago’s inaugural Architecture Biennial— North America’s first—was a smash hit.