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Join Charles Leeks and Matt Cole from Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago, to learn about how NHS is continuing to incorporate historic preservation, design, and cultural programming into its community development efforts on the West & South Sides of Chicag

Make Way for People is a new program launched by the Chicago Department of Transportation that promotes temporary or easily removable strategies for quickly and inexpensively creating new public space in the public right of way.

Join Mary Shaffer, lead design project manager for Target Architecture, who led the architecture and engineering team on the interior re-design of the 1899 Louis Sullivan designed former Carson Pirie Scott Building at State and Madison Streets.

Almost since the dawn of urban living, people have constructed spaces for viewing cities from above. This talk explores Chicago’s extraordinary history as a center for creating unique and imaginative functions for “spaces atop the city.”

What is the cost of losing or saving Chicago’s past? In this widely anticipated annual event, Preservation Chicago reveals its list of Chicago’s 7 Most Threatened Historic Places of 2012.

For more than 150 years, Marshall Field and Co. reigned as Chicago's leading department store.

As the Victorian age gave way to the Progressive Era, Chicago designer O.C. Simonds (1855–1931) was a seminal figure in the naturalistic landscape movement and the first to popularize the use of native plants.