(photo by Lee Bey)The Cabrini Green public housing building at 660 W.

Columbia College Media Production Center (photo by Lee Bey) Columbia College is an historically non-traditional arts college housed in series of‚  traditional-looking converted late 19th and early 20th century commercial buildings in the South Loop.

Viceroy Hotel (photo by Lee Bey) The former Viceroy Hotel is expected to take a step closer to protected landmark status today.The city's Commission on Chicago Landmarks is scheduled to vote whether to recommend the city council grant‚ landmark status to the vacant six-story Ar

Hotel 71 (photo by Lee Bey)Hotel 71 almost never gets name-checked when people discuss the city's better architecture. If it isn't forgotten, it's certainly overlooked. No reason why it should be, though. Built in 1958 as the Executive House hotel, the 36-story 71 E.

(photo by Lee Bey) I came here to complain about the mid-century Austin Federal Savings & Loan having to suffer the double indignity of being boarded up and partly slathered with posters of Ke$ha:(photo by Lee Bey)But I won't.

Comer College Prep Charter School under construction (photo by Lee Bey)South Chicago Avenue was an industrial backbone of the South and Southeast Side.‚  Many of‚  the old factories and plants are gone, but a stretch of the street in the Greater Grand Crossing communit

(photo by Lee Bey)Carl Sandburg wrote about smokestacks and steel. And we were a city like that. Once. Dark vapors used to curl from factory smokestacks; auburn tresses leaving an ephemeral trail across the sky. And chimney tops at the old South Side steel mills lit up the night air.