From its gleaming white terra cotta façade to its enduring clock tower presence on Michigan Avenue, the Wrigley Building has long stood as a symbol of Chicago. But in the new book The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, four of the city’s foremost historians and creatives reveal that this architectural marvel is far more […]
Few things were more exciting when I was young than my family’s yearly trip to visit my great aunt Barbara in Belvedere. Although I grew up in the Central Valley, my family has roots in the Bay Area, and long before I was born, she had settled in Belvedere in a house known locally as […]
While we won’t know the full extent of the economic downfall of Covid-19 for some time, we do know that it will have the biggest impact on small businesses, restaurants and nonprofits. Nonprofits rely heavily on donations raised through events and galas—many of which have been cancelled. The Chicago Architecture Center (CAC) is one of the […]