City of Big Shoulders.

City of Big Shoulders.

(via trashhand)

bookplate decor in UChicago’s Mansueto Library on Flickr.Via Flickr:
one wall has an array of bookplates on an illuminated panel

bookplate decor in UChicago’s Mansueto Library on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
one wall has an array of bookplates on an illuminated panel

former auto showroom building on Flickr.
Via Flickr: explosion of art deco cars and car parts, in Hyde Park, Chicago
a detail of that automobile:

former auto showroom building on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
explosion of art deco cars and car parts, in Hyde Park, Chicago

a detail of that automobile:

art deco auto

tower of UChicago’s theology school on Flickr.
Chicago architecture on Flickr.Via Flickr:Schulze Bakery Building
detail—nice digits! on Flickr.This Chicago house was designed by the same architect as designed the NYC library where I work.

detail—nice digits! on Flickr.

This Chicago house was designed by the same architect as designed the NYC library where I work.

Rookery Building Stairs with fish eye by Robert R Gigliotti, RRGPhotography.com on Flickr.Via Flickr:
The famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed interior of the Rookery building. This is also where architect Daniel Burnham had his office in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

Rookery Building Stairs with fish eye by Robert R Gigliotti, RRGPhotography.com on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
The famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed interior of the Rookery building. This is also where architect Daniel Burnham had his office in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

Pritzker bandshell in Millennium Park on Flickr.Via Flickr:
The sky was impossibly blue that day, and the silver steel gleamed like fire.  So beautiful!

Pritzker bandshell in Millennium Park on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
The sky was impossibly blue that day, and the silver steel gleamed like fire. So beautiful!

013 by MewDeep on Flickr.Via Flickr:
The Edwin Colvin House at 5940 North Sheridan, Chicago
George W. Maher, architect

013 by MewDeep on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
The Edwin Colvin House at 5940 North Sheridan, Chicago
George W. Maher, architect

Ginger Rogers dances the Charleston for the 1942 film “Roxie Hart,” in a scene later cut from the film.

(Source: youtu.be)

on the State St bridge on Flickr.
gleaming city on Flickr.the sun hit just right as I was speeding past in a cab…

gleaming city on Flickr.

the sun hit just right as I was speeding past in a cab…

Frank F. Fisher Studio Houses (1936) by ChicagoGeek on Flickr.
“Dan Ryan Expressway,” by Wesley Willis (1989). 
Found here.

“Dan Ryan Expressway,” by Wesley Willis (1989). 

Found here.

The Agriculture Building, on the Court of Honor, at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (the fair of The Devil in the White City).
From the University of Maryland Libraries’ online exhibition of World’s Fair art and architecture.

The Agriculture Building, on the Court of Honor, at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (the fair of The Devil in the White City).

From the University of Maryland Libraries’ online exhibition of World’s Fair art and architecture.