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 ...

Eater maps are curated by editors and aim to reflect a diversity of neighborhoods, cuisines, and prices. Learn more about our editorial process. The movie starts out at Dr. Kimble’s home, where ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a city that prides itself on its architectural legacy, Chicago has a mixed track record when it comes to saving its significant buildings. The city’s historic preservation movement didn’t ...

Many Chicago buyers and sellers manage to close on a home amid the pandemic, but others have not been so lucky. For Cameron Leavitt, a construction manager who was in the middle of buying a unit ...

Work on the mixed-use Logan’s Crossing project is finally underway at the former site of Logan’s Square Mega Mall—three years after developers first unveiled their plans for the 2500 block of N.

Chicago’s new Mayor Lori Lightfoot wasted no time advancing her plans to bring more transparency and trust into city politics. On her first day in office, the mayor signed an order scaling back ...

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 ...

A rendering of the Kennedy Expressway topped with public park space. Courtesy RATIO Architects A visionary idea to create a deck over the Kennedy Expressway with a public park between Chicago’s ...

Situated on five-plus acres of prime lakefront real estate in Lake Forest, Illinois, the 28-room Schweppe Mansion just surpassed two years on the market without finding a buyer. Designed by ...

Since its humble beginnings as a reading room inside a repurposed water tower tank in 1873, the Chicago Public Library system has sprouted 81 branches. Throughout its history, the CPL has occupied ...