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While loading up my new computer's hard drive yesterday, I ran across a batch of old photos I took of the former Kennedy-King College at 69th and Wentworth.A connection at the City Colleges of Chicago granted me permission to roam the interior and exterior of the then-closed junior college in July 2

The recent Bertrand Goldberg retrospective was a great opportunity to get re-acquainted with a familiar and fantastic part of Chicago's skyline - Marina City. My favorite part was this companion exhibit - nothing like a museum-sanctioned snoop around someone else's living space!

After asking listeners to consider what they would sell if in need of some fast cash--ideas ranged from wedding gifts to coffins--Eight Forty-Eight wondered: How about buildings?

With only $7,000 in hand, a group of black leaders started Illinois Federal Savings & Loan in a Bronzeville kitchen-turned-office during the Great Depression.But by 1961, Illinois Federal was the second-largest black-owned S&L in the country with $12 million in assets.

Long before he set foot in his future, permanent home of Los Angeles, the renowned 20th-century architect Richard Neutra immersed himself in the lessons of booming 1920s Chicago and America, drinking in steel framing via architect and engineer Dankmar Adler, working on the Palmer House as Draftsman

A North Shore developer seeks to preserve and redevelop Lincolnwood's Purple Hotel--provided he can stop the suburb from demolishing the 51-year-old edifice."

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.