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Each Thursday on Global Activism, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Katherine Darnstadt is the co-founder of the Chicago chapter of Architecture for Humanity.

Historian David Garrard Lowe first fell in love with Chicago as a small child, during summers he spent with his father’s extended family. Left to his own devices he explored and fell in love with the city’s architecture and businesses.

Chicago ex-pat Michael DeLaRosa, who grew up on the Northwest Side in the 1970s, emailed me a puzzler last week.Michael went to the site Historic Aerials to browse 70 years worth of aerial photographs of his old neighborhood located on the edge of the LaBagh Woods' Irene C.

Rem Koolhaas is the architect behind some of modern design’s most acclaimed buildings. Chicago is home to one – The Student Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Traffic has been snarled in the Loop this week thanks to the second phase of Revive Wacker Drive, a major reconstruction of the famous double-decker street.

Updated 12/13/10 at 1:05 PM.Last week Chicagoans watched the departure of the last resident of one of the city’s most iconic public-housing complexes, Cabrini-Green. For better or worse, the change in Chicago’s public housing stock is part of Mayor Richard M.

One of the most iconic residential homes in Chicago is the bungalow. Most of the detached, low-rise, single-family homes were built between 1910 and 1940 and the bungalow is the most common type of building in Chicago.