Chicago architect Adrian Smith designed the world’s tallest building. Now he has created one that will reach even farther—a full kilometer into the sky. How high can he go? Read more
The passionate beliefs of an aggressively capitalist Supreme Court justice, a stubborn department store magnate, and an environmentalist law professor somehow combined, over the course of more than a century, to keep a museum off a parking lot in Chicago. Read more
The city shrank for the first time this decade—and the numbers across the metropolitan area and the state are bad as well. There might be some daylight ahead, but it doesn't show up in the population numbers. Read more
