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We share the stories of Chicago architecture to inspire people to discover why design matters. EDUCATION • TOURS • EXHIBITIONS • CRUISES architecture.org
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Because scrolling pics of Chicago architecture isn’t the same as seeing it in person. 👟

🏠 Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park
🌊 Lakeshore Living: Steel and Stone
🎨 Tiffany in Chicago
💎 The Rookery
Get tix and all the info at www.architecture.org/city-tours
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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🌟 Last night, the Northern Lights lit up our skyline in a breathtaking display. Who else caught it?

📸: @cdats via Instagram

#Chicago #architecture #skyline #northernlights #chicagoskyline
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Soldier Field has plaques, colonnades, and a Gold Star Memorial—a collection of beautiful public art designed as a love letter to U.S. veterans.
Sending gratitude this Veterans Day and every day. ❤️🤍💙
📸: Soldier Field War Memorials, Photo: Craig Shimala
#Chicago #allfortheloveofChicago #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This photo tastes suspiciously like a pumpkin spice latte and sounds like your boots crunching through the entire season.
📸: Nick Ulivieri via Instagram
#Chicago #architecture #ChicagoinFall #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagoautumn
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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🎄Holiday cheer, incoming! 🎅 🛷
Millennium Park's Christmas Tree is a 68-foot spruce from suburban Glenview. It will be decorated and lit November 21.
📸: Patrick L.Pyszka, City of Chicago
https://bit.ly/4owNAyR
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Big preservation news: the Commission on Chicago Landmarks made its final recommendation to extend the Logan Square Historic District. Next stop: City Council for final approval. 💪 🏛️🍂 https://bit.ly/4hT7QrR
📸 921–923 N. Sacramento Ave
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The man studied engineering in Paris, fought in the Civil War, then came to Chicago and invented the skyscraper.
Clearly, “taking it easy” was not in William LeBaron Jenney's vocabulary. 💪
https://bit.ly/47PaGcV
📸: Home Insurance Building, Photo: Permission of Inland Architect and Builder
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Not to be dramatic, but this is the time of year you go to see the Bean and wind up getting emotionally attached to the trees. 🤩 🍂

#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #fallinChicago #millenniumpark #thebean
📸: @barrybutler9 via Instagram
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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If your holiday aesthetic is “grand architecture + festive chaos,” have we got the tours for you. 🫵 🚂🎄🎅

Macy’s windows? ✅
Union Station glow-up? ✅
Palmer House drama? ✅
Christkindlmarket finale? ✅
🎟️ Get tix before they sell out!
https://bit.ly/4dT00eZ
#allfortheloveofchicago #Chicago #architecture
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Somewhere in those trees, someone is taking engagement photos right now. Guaranteed. 🍁💍
#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #autumn #millenniumpark
📸: @waywelling via Instagram
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Chicago teens, want to build your future in architecture, engineering, and design? The CAC’s FREE Teen Fellows Program offers college credit, mentorship, and paid experience. Applications are now open!
www.architecture.org/events-progr...
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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☕🚽 For anyone who has ever bought a coffee just to use the bathroom...
2026 is your year.

From @blockclubchi, city to get its first city-backed public restroom: https://bit.ly/47Dq1gu

📸: Ondosan Sinaga / Pexels
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The South Side’s most joyful building? The Gary Comer Youth Center, a global model for youth empowerment through design. 🩵
https://bit.ly/4nDxeDg
📸: Gary Comer Youth Center, Architect: John Ronan Architects, Photographer: Eric Allix Rogers
November 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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See mid-century modern history up close 🏡

Join the Kenilworth Historical Society for an Open House at 303 Sheridan Road, a 1958 Keck & Keck masterpiece still in its original condition. 😮

Don’t miss this rare look inside!

🗓️11/1, 3–5 pm

RSVP https://bit.ly/47xz7Lv
#Chicago #allfortheloveofchicago
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🍁 Architecture hits different when the leaves change. Join a CAC tour. 🍁

🎟️ For information and tickets to these and all CAC tours, visit https://bit.ly/4hW7vDz

#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🍁 The time of year when Chicago's trees are 🔥
📸: @barrybutler9 via Instagram
#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagofall #fallinChicago
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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📸 Chicago, you showed up! These amazing shots from #OHC2025 capture the city at its best.
Swift Hall: @mwb0153
Emil Bach House: @quaintcities
Edgewater Beach Apts: @leylairoyale
Hilliard Apts: @scottanselmophoto
OHC2026: Oct 17–18
OHC2025 Photo competition: https://bit.ly/3Lbg5TR
October 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Ever notice the 🌀 swirl on Ionic columns? That’s a volute, a scroll often found on the top of classical columns. https://bit.ly/3J7nrap
#Chicago #allfortheloveofchicago #architecture #volute #architecturedictionary
October 27, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Loved Open House Chicago? Keep exploring this fall with CAC tours! Visit Graceland & Oak Woods Cemeteries, wander the underground Pedway, or step into Chicago’s dazzling Art Deco lobbies. 🍂
Info & tickets → https://bit.ly/4hW7vDz
#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago
October 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Don’t miss your last chance to walk the real grounds of the 1893 World’s Fair! 🌟 CAC’s Devil in the White City tour explores Jackson Park’s lasting architecture + eerie history.
Final 2025 tour: Oct 25. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3WfECcK
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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That’s a wrap on #OHC2025! You braved the rain, traffic, and long lines—all for the love of Chicago ❤️
Huge thanks to our incredible volunteers 🙌
See you Oct 17–18 for #OHC2026!
Got photos? Enter the OHC Photo Competition → https://bit.ly/4mQH0Sv
October 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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OHC is free thanks to you 🫵 Help keep it that way! Even a small gift to the Chicago Architecture Center keeps the festival going strong. ❤️ https://bit.ly/4h9viQT #OHC2025 #OHC2026 #allfortheloveofChicago
October 19, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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✅ Free t-shirt. ✅ Line-skipping powers. ✅ Architecture clout.
🔥👀🫶 All yours if you volunteer for #OHC2026.

We need your help to make next year's OHC successful! Sign up today! https://bit.ly/3B2R8ow
October 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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📸 The 2nd annual OHC Photo Competition is on! Snap Chicago’s architecture this weekend + submit your best Interior, Exterior, Detail, or B&W shots. Winners featured at an upcoming exhibition at the CAC! https://bit.ly/4mQH0Sv
#OHC2025 #ChicagoArchitecture #allfortheloveofchicago
October 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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📍Kick off OHC at a Neighborhood HQ! There's 🗞️ free Chicago Reader OHC edition, 🚻 restrooms, and sign up for 🪪 CAC membership (hello, priority access 👀).
🏛️ CAC – exhibits + design shop
🎭 Ramova – tours + music
🥃 KOVAL – free tastings (21+)
🌿 Starling – creative vibes + coffee
https://bit.ly/47atWkv
October 18, 2025 at 2:45 PM