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A postcard portraying an exterior day view of Washington Street looking East from Wells Street in Chicago, Illinois.

“In our 'cities within cities' we shall turn our streets up into the air, and stack the daytime and nighttime use of our land." —Bertrand Goldberg

Marina City was built in 1967. Its architect Bertrand Goldberg intended it to be an urban experiment…

52-story River Point, a commercial project designed by Pickard Chilton.

150 North Riverside is a wonder of architectural engineering.

Daniel H. Burnham was the founder of Burnham and Root, one of Chicago's most prominent architectural firms, and the Director of Works on the World's Columbian Exposition. He also designed many of the city's most impressive buildings, including the…

Plate 137 from The Plan of Chicago, 1909: Chicago. View of the Proposed Development in the Center of the City, from Twenty-Second Street to Chicago Avenue, Looking Towards the East Over the Civic Center to Grant Park and Lake Michigan, 1907

The controversial post-modern building, the James R. Thompson Center, was built in 1985 by Helmut Jahn.

This resource is a brief discussing Daniel Burnham's 1909 plan for the city of Chicago, as well as what was actually implemented.

Photograph of the Chicago Theatre

A digital version of the Plan of Chicago, the first city plan in the United States. Designed by Daniel Burnham and Edward Bennett, two prominent Chicago architects, it laid out a series of projects meant to improve and beautify the city through a…