One of the more memorable displays of old-style Chicago politics and boosterism that I ever witnessed was at a Streeterville community meeting circa 2007 in which outgoing 42nd Ward Ald. Burt Natarus ...

While some of Chicago’s late 19th-century tall buildings, such as the Reliance Building at State and Washington streets, were predominantly glass, it wasn’t until the arrival of Mies van der Rohe and ...