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Thursday, October 23, 2025

Bringing it Home: How an Engaging, Handsomely Illustrated New Book Tracks the Histories and Styles of Chicago's Residential Architecture.

There’s no shortage of books about Chicago’s skyscrapers. Too coffee-table big to ignore, they almost poke you in the eye. And yet tall ...

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Running past Chicago's iconic architecture: A Photo Portrait of The 2025 Chicago Marathon

For much of its history, State Street was Chicago's commercial center: seven department stores, movie palaces, hotels, shops. That day ...

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Lynn Becker: . . . writings on architecture have appeared in the Chicago Reader, Metropolis Magazine, the Harvard Design Magazine, and the backs of discarded gum wrappers. We reserve the right to delete posts that we judge spamatory, defamatory or unnecessarily obscene. If you prefer to berate me personally, email me here.

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