“It was made to be liked,” said Robert Sharoff, whose new coffee table book, “The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon,” (Rizzoli Electa) with photographs by William Zbaren and commentaries by Tim ...

Landmarks Illinois is out with its annual list of 10 most endangered landmarks, including three locations in Chicago.

The list includes a Frank Lloyd Wright home in Austin, a former school in Avalon Park and an outdoor theater in South Shore.

1973: Ironworkers bolted the last girder into place, making Sears Tower (now Willis Tower) the world’s tallest building. Sears Tower ended the Empire State Building’s four-decade reign as the world’s ...

Swiss cement company Holcim Ltd. said it will relocate its planned North American spinoff to downtown Chicago.

Gensler Share Converting vacant office buildings into residential co-living units — akin to dorm-style housing — would help solve a trio of real estate problems bogging down Chicago ...

A man died after an accidental apartment building fire in Chicago's Grand Crossing neighborhood early Wednesday morning. Just after 2:15 a.m., Chicago police said firefighters responded to the ...

But today, between 700 to 800 attend the school, now called Chicago Vocational Career Academy. Large portions of the building have gone unused for years, prompting fears from architecture devotees ...

Three in particular are of concern to the group: the modernist federal buildings in Chicago, Carbondale and East St. Louis, which were on a list of 443 federal properties the government listed for ...

The property is about to formally lose its anchor tenant, Comcast, as the media giant relocates its suburban Chicago office to Schaumburg. That will leave the building roughly 80% vacant ...