Chicago’s Best Architectural Sights

Chicago’s Best Architectural Sights

The Windy City offers art and architecture at every angle.

Photo by Justin Harrington.

Photo by Justin Harrington.

GO GOTHIC: THE TRIBUNE BUILDING

Completed in 1925, this neo-Gothic building came about after the Chicago Tribune newspaper enlisted a competition to design its new home. The winners were New York architects John Mead Howells and Raymond Hood, who incorporated rocks and bricks various reporters had collected from around the globe into the structure. Take a close look on the façade and you’ll see pieces from the Great Wall of China, the Notre Dame in Paris, Abraham Lincoln’s tomb and even from the Taj Mahal.