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Architecture Capital? What we’ll lose if we lose our mid-century modern buildings
By Ella Christoph If archaeologists wanted to excavate Chicago to discover its history, they would quickly realize digging down is far less productive than just opening your eyes and looking at the panorama of a city block. The sediment of Chicago reaches left and right, not down, and it’s by noticing one building next to [...]
Grain of Truth: Taking stock of the relics of Chicago’s era as the world’s “Stacker of Wheat”
By David Witter Grain elevators were the city’s first skyscrapers, rising up as high as fifteen stories along the Chicago River and Sanitary and Ship Canal from downtown to the South Shore, supplying the nation’s bakeries much in the way that the stockyards of the Armours, Oscar Mayers and Swifts gave us steak, bacon and [...]
