Architectural Sites in Chicago

Sights Overview

Name	Category	Location

190 South LaSalle This 40-story postmodern office building, resembling a super-sized...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

311 South Wacker Drive The first of three towers intended for the site, this pale pink...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

33 West Kinzie Street At Dearborn and Kinzie streets stands a splendid ornamental brickwork...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

333 West Wacker Drive This green-glazed beauty doesn't follow the rules. Its riverside...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

860-880 N. Lake Shore Drive These twin apartment towers overlooking Lake Michigan were an...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North


Aon Center With the open space of Millennium Park at its doorstep, the Aon...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Auditorium Theatre Hunkered down across from Grant Park, this 110,000-ton granite-and-limestone...	Arts / Performance Venues, Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Bank of America Theatre On Monroe, just before State Street, sits the ornate Bank of...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Bloomingdale's (Medinah Temple) Built in 1912 for the Shriners, the former Medinah Temple is...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

Carbide and Carbon Building (Hard Rock Hotel) Designed in 1929 by Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of the renowned...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Charnley-Persky House Museum Foundation Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Charnley-Persky House with his...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

Chase Tower This building's graceful swoop—a novelty when it went up—continues...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Chicago Cultural Center Built in 1897 as the city's original public library, this huge...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Crain Communications Building (Smurfit-Stone Building) Some wags have pointed out that this building, with its diamond-shape...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

The Dearborn Station Chicago's oldest standing passenger train station, a South Loop...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Donohue Building The first major printing facility in Printers Row, this 1883...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Fine Arts Building This creaky building was constructed in 1895 to house the showrooms...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Flatiron Arts Building Opposite the Northwest Tower across the busy North Milwaukee-Damen...	Architectural Sites	Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, and Bucktown

The Franklin Building Built in 1888 as the home of Franklin Company, one of the largest...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Historic Water Tower This famous Michigan Avenue structure, completed in 1867, was...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

Hyatt Center At 48 stories, the headquarters of this hotel and resort company...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Inland Steel Building A runt compared to today's tall buildings, this crisp, sparkling...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

John Hancock Observatory Designed by the same team that designed the Willis (formerly...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

Marina City Likened to everything from corncobs to the towers of Antonio...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

The Marquette Building Like a slipcover over a sofa, the clean, geometric facade of...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Monadnock Building Built in two segments a few years apart, the Monadnock captures...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

National Veterans Art Museum As of this printing, the National Veterans Art Museum had just...	Architectural Sites	Pilsen, Little Italy, and Chinatown

NBC Tower This 1989 limestone-and-granite edifice by Skidmore, Owings &...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

Nine Dragon Wall One of three replicas outside China, the wall is modeled after...	Architectural Sites	Pilsen, Little Italy, and Chinatown

North Avenue Baths Building The beautiful facade is a clue to the building's past life, when...	Architectural Sites	Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, and Bucktown

Northwest Tower Building This striking triangular Art Deco building is the anchor of the...	Architectural Sites	Lincoln Park, Wicker Park, and Bucktown

Pontiac Building An early Chicago School skyscraper—note its classic rectangular...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

The Promontory The tan brick building, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1949...	Architectural Sites	Hyde Park

Prudential Plaza There are two architecturally notable buildings at the plaza...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Richard J. Daley Center Named for the late mayor Richard J. Daley, this boldly plain...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

River City If you've spent some time in the Loop already, then this complex's...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

The Rookery This 11-story structure, with its eclectically ornamented facade...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Santa Fe Building Also known as the Railway Exchange Building, this structure was...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

South Shore Cultural Center Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, this opulent...	Architectural Sites	Hyde Park

Symphony Center Now home to the acclaimed Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), this...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Tribune Tower To create a home for his newspaper, Chicago Tribune publisher...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

Trump International Hotel & Tower The Chicago Sun-Times Building was torn down to make way for...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North

Willis Tower At 110 stories and 1,730 feet tall, the former Sears Tower, designed...	Architectural Sites	The Loop, Including West Loop and South Loop

Wrigley Building The gleaming white Wrigley Building's clock tower was inspired...	Architectural Sites	Near North and River North
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