Penned the "City of Big Shoulders" by poet Carl Sandburg, if Chicago does indeed have shoulders they must be some of the city's landmark structures built preceding the Great Chicago Fire. One of the ...

The theater in the Auditorium Building is one of the most stunning architectural sites in Chicago. (Theater photo by James Steinkamp; other photos by Scott Carlson) College public-relations officials ...

The years around 1890 still stand out as the period when the modern skyscraper was born in the cities of Chicago and St. Louis. Combining new technology and capital, the firm of Adler and Sullivan ...