VanDam Street Smart Chicago, 2004 Join the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University for an encore of one of Forgotten Chicago’s most popular tours, The Extension and Removal of Ogden Avenue on Sunday, August 13, 2023. One of the most curious and forgotten chapters in Chicago transportation
Serhii Chrucky, 2016 Closed suddenly in March 2021, Carson Pirie Scott built the former Indian Lakes Resort hotel in West Suburban Bloomingdale, Illinois in 1980. Now partially demolished, the resort complex contained notable architecture by Chicago architects Ed Dart and Don Erickson, including the stunning hotel atrium and signature Cave
Top: Patrick Steffes, 2014 Bottm: Sharyne Tu, 2022 A sold-out group joined Joe Schwieiterman, Director of the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University and Patrick Steffes, Urban Program Advisor and Research Fellow at Chaddick on Sunday, September 25, 2022 at Noon as we continued our series of events
Matthew Kaplan, 2022 Currently scheduled for demolition, this 1955 parking garage was the final of ten constructed in the central area in what was at the time the largest municipally-funded parking garage network in the world and explored in a 2008 Forgotten Chicago feature. On Saturday, June 18, 2022, a
C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois Chicago), 1971 In less than two generations, the area north of the Chicago River between DuSable Lake Shore Drive and Michigan Avenue has undergone one of the most significant redevelopments of any neighborhood in the Midwest. Dirk Lohan: Buildings and Projects of Lohan