It's worth celebrating when good design occurs in Chicago, as is the case with La Casa Student Housing and Resource Center, a college dorm that opened last fall in the Pilsen neighborhood.

David Schalliol and his team tell the story of an entire quadrant of Englewood that's being wiped away by a railroad company.

In 2010 Goes left, moved 92 miles north to the town of Delavan, WI.  And now within days, the company's 109-year-old former--a beautiful example of early 20th century industrial architecture--will be demolished.

For a brief moment in 1970, Bird of the Iron Feather was one of the most-talked about programs on local television.

Yaw Agyeman is a fantastic singer. He possesses a dense, silky voice that has gotten notice around town--and is bound to get more (we'll hear him sing a bit later).Yaw, who performs under his first name only, is a poet and an MC.

Here's another gem from our friends at the Chicago Film Archives: The City to See in '63, a 12-minute, 16mm color film touting the places, spaces and other virtues of Chicago.There is some good stuff here.

Late last year, the Ford division began remembering from whence it came, with the company adopting the "Lincoln Motor Company" moniker and emphasizing design in its commercials and branding.