It’s fashionable to say that New York is the greatest city in the world, but this Chicago girl prefers the Second City. For the first time in many years, I had an opportunity to spend summer in the Chicagoland area, where my family still lives. As I always do whenever I’m here, I took one … Read more
One of two magnificent stained-glass domes in the old Public Library in downtown Chicago, now used at the Chicago Cultural Center
Bronze-plated cast-iron ornamental work of the Sullivan Center in Chicago, formerly the downtown Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building on State Street
Model of the City of Chicago at the Chicago Architectural Foundation, showing extensive green space along Lake Michigan. The plan was ahead of its time, and successfully set aside a large swath of public space along Lake Michigan, which makes Chicago’s downtown one of the most stunning in the country.
