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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

Photograph of the Chicago Theatre

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.

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…

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…

An architectural summary of the Rookery Building, a historical skyscraper in the Loop.

150 North Riverside is a wonder of architectural engineering.

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