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A music video for the song Angels, by Chance the Rapper featuring Saba, from Chance's latest album Coloring Book.

A website that features encyclopedia entries, essays, maps, statistics, and digitized primary sources for all of the above.

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

The Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930.

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…

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…

The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal is a man-made hydrologic connection between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins that was completed in the early 20th century to address sanitation and flooding. Construction of the CSSC allowed the…

Chicago History Museum discussion of 1970s rock music in Chicago, with an emphasis on the bands Chicago and Styx.

A song detailing a leisurely walk through the great city of Chicago.