Crain’s Chicago Business has released its 30th annual 40 Under Forty list, which names young professionals in Chicago who have made a significant impact on the city and its communities. This year...
As busy consumers become increasingly more health conscious, a cottage industry of health-oriented vending machines from the likes of Farmer’s Fridge, Byte Foods, and Chowbotics are providing...
Martin Thaler, a studio professor at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Institute of Design and a product design expert, is the co-author of a new book 101 Things I Learned in Product Design School...
In 1909 the Commercial Club of Chicago funded the creation of Plan of Chicago––commonly called the Burnham Plan in reference to its lead author, architect Daniel Burnham––which proposed a six-point...
A project by Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design titled “Non-Moving Violations: Advancing Equity Among Low-income, Minority Chicago Residents” has been recognized by Fast Company as...
Christopher Rudd, an instructor specializing in community-driven design at Illinois Institute of Technology's Institute of Design (ID), has been chosen as one of 38 individuals to participate in...
When it opened in early 2019, Independence Library, located in the Chicago neighborhood of Irving Park, replaced the neighborhood’s previous public library, a cramped storefront space that had been...
Completed in 1956, S. R. Crown Hall is an early steel and glass building that helped usher in, among other things, a new approach toward educational spaces while echoing the historic “one room...
As some Chicago restaurants and businesses struggle to reopen during the COVID-19 pandemic, the All Reimagining Chicago Task Force––composed of city departments, community organizations, and design...
On August 3 Ricardo Bustillo (ME 5th Year, M.S. MMAE Candidate) began carrying his belongings into the gleaming nine-story, Modernist high-rise building at 3101 South Wabash Avenue. A resident adviser...
