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While many cities across the country are witnessing construction booms, the development activity currently underway in Chicago cannot be overstated. Last year, Chicago witnessed a post-recession ...

Welcome to Curbed’s first-ever Transportation Week! From how to improve public transportation in cities, ranking the best car-free neighborhoods across the country, and a friendly competition between ...

Chicago is the ever-beating architectural heart of America: From developing the modest balloon-frame home to creating the skyscraper, Chicago is the birthplace of some of the most iconic and ...

With more than 100,000 bungalows in the Chicago metro area, this structure was the Windy City's new workers cottage for the 20th century. Constructed between 1910 and 1940, the bungalow was originally ...

Chicago is known for a variety of transportation: busy airports, a popular riverfront, and a strategic rail transit hub. However, the city’s downtown is perhaps best traveled by foot. It’s the only ...

The Chicago two-flat is an essential part of the city’s vernacular architecture. Two-doors hidden behind a single front entrance, rust color brick, improvised back porches on wooden stairs—these ...

A team of developers looks to shake up Chicago’s skyline with a striking 96-story skyscraper slated to rise just east of Tribune Tower. At a public meeting on Monday, Chicago developer Golub & Co. and ...

The original Chicago Spire project was a 2,000-foot condo tower designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Construction began in 2007 but abruptly stopped the next year during the global ...

Solider Field was utilized as a venue for the 1933 World's Fair. Photo: Getty Images In 1919, the South Park Commission held a design competition for what was originally envisioned as a central ...

As seen from opposite end of the center’s plaza, the redesigned museum building is less squat and more detailed than in previous plans. Obama Foundation New renderings of the upcoming Obama ...

A great deal has been written about Frank Lloyd Wright on the development of modern architecture, but what exactly inspired the famous architect? What led to the development of his Prairie School ...