CHICAGO April 1, 2009 – Seeing the city from the vantage point of the river gives a whole new feel to the experience. The official Chicago Architecture Foundation (CAF) architecture river cruise ...

The Chicago Architecture Foundation Center's architecture tours along the Chicago River return this week. The Chicago First Lady Cruises – where people are seated on an outdoor open-air deck amid a ...

The Chicago Architecture Center (formerly the Chicago Architecture Foundation) opens in its new location on the river this weekend. Credit: Deanna Isaacs The exhibits weren’t fully installed when I ...

Start Cruising Like You Did Last Summer -- First cruise of the season is May 2 but tickets go on sale April 1 for the Chicago Architecture River Cruise aboard Chicago’s First Lady. ORD: Documenting ...

“Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.” — Carl Sandburg, “Chicago” Chicago is not just a big city. It’s a big deal. It is a ...

Q My husband and I want to visit Chicago and do as many architectural things as possible. Any ideas? Rosanne Blinder Columbia A In Chicago, blink and you'll miss an architectural masterpiece. "Chicago ...

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Millennium Park, home of Cloud Gate, the stainless steel sculpture by British artist Anish Kapoor. Chicagoans call it the Bean. This is for anyone who likes to look up while visiting Chicago.

Ben Weese was an architect and historic preservationist who was part of the “Chicago Seven” architectural group, an informal coterie of Chicago architects who banded together to reject the rigid ...

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