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We share the stories of Chicago architecture to inspire people to discover why design matters. EDUCATION • TOURS • EXHIBITIONS • CRUISES architecture.org
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If the fam is stressing you out, walk it off with these tours. 👇
👀 Must-See Chicago (Bonus! Tour concludes at the Christkindlmarket)
🍾 Art Deco Skyscrapers: Landmark Lobbies
💎 Historic Treasures of Chicago's Golden Age
🥂 Art Deco: The Riverfront
ℹ️ & 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4hW7vDz
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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🎄 Fireworks, ballet, warm drinks…CAC members did the holidays right. Thx for coming!
✉️ Want the invite next year? Join CAC. https://bit.ly/4g3G5um
📸:
#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #Chicagoholidays #holidaysinChicago #holidays #holidayseason
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Chicago’s Beaux-Arts buildings are basically giving “Roman Empire chic” and we’re here for the delusion. 💃 👀🏛️
https://bit.ly/4ifbdtb
📸: Chicago Cultural Center, Architect: Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, Photographer: Eric Allix Rogers
#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #beauxarts
November 24, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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NYE countdown in Chicago is now officially a thing. 💁‍♀️ Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve is hosting its first-ever Central Time Zone countdown from the city.
https://bit.ly/4pnBR5r
📸: Patrick L. Pyszka
#Chicago #architecture #NYE #2026 #allfortheloveofchicago
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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⭐ Into gorgeous decay? 🏛️ Historic chaos? 🎥 Giant movie palaces? 👍 Cool, see you at our Uptown Theatre book talk, Dec 8.

📕 Grab your copy at the CAC Design Store and stick around for a book signing!

🔗 https://bit.ly/4pqB8k3

📸: CityFiles Press
https://bit.ly/3XeMVG7
November 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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🎭 Chicago Theater: 100 years old and still photogenic in bad weather. ✨ 🤳
📸: @waywelling via Instagram
#Chicago #architecture #Chicagotheatre #allfortheloveofchicago
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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If Chicago had a dating profile, these are the pics they'd use. 🤳
Framed Views brings together 60 of the best OHC photos from this year's photo competition. Opens 11/22
https://bit.ly/4a2tUOG
📸: Edgewater Beach Apartments, Architect: Benjamin Marshall, Photographer: John Sanford
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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🌬️ Chicago wind: tries to yeet you into the river
Us: “Let’s take this indoors.”
Stunning buildings. Zero hypothermia.
🎟️: architecture.org/city-tours
#Chicago #architecture #buildingtours #merchandisemart #unionstation #reliancebuilding #oldpostoffice
November 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Because scrolling pics of Chicago architecture isn’t the same as seeing it in person. 👟

🏠 Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park
🌊 Lakeshore Living: Steel and Stone
🎨 Tiffany in Chicago
💎 The Rookery
Get tix and all the info at www.architecture.org/city-tours
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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🌟 Last night, the Northern Lights lit up our skyline in a breathtaking display. Who else caught it?

📸: @cdats via Instagram

#Chicago #architecture #skyline #northernlights #chicagoskyline
November 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Soldier Field has plaques, colonnades, and a Gold Star Memorial—a collection of beautiful public art designed as a love letter to U.S. veterans.
Sending gratitude this Veterans Day and every day. ❤️🤍💙
📸: Soldier Field War Memorials, Photo: Craig Shimala
#Chicago #allfortheloveofChicago #VeteransDay
November 11, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This photo tastes suspiciously like a pumpkin spice latte and sounds like your boots crunching through the entire season.
📸: Nick Ulivieri via Instagram
#Chicago #architecture #ChicagoinFall #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagoautumn
November 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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🎄Holiday cheer, incoming! 🎅 🛷
Millennium Park's Christmas Tree is a 68-foot spruce from suburban Glenview. It will be decorated and lit November 21.
📸: Patrick L.Pyszka, City of Chicago
https://bit.ly/4owNAyR
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Big preservation news: the Commission on Chicago Landmarks made its final recommendation to extend the Logan Square Historic District. Next stop: City Council for final approval. 💪 🏛️🍂 https://bit.ly/4hT7QrR
📸 921–923 N. Sacramento Ave
November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The man studied engineering in Paris, fought in the Civil War, then came to Chicago and invented the skyscraper.
Clearly, “taking it easy” was not in William LeBaron Jenney's vocabulary. 💪
https://bit.ly/47PaGcV
📸: Home Insurance Building, Photo: Permission of Inland Architect and Builder
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Not to be dramatic, but this is the time of year you go to see the Bean and wind up getting emotionally attached to the trees. 🤩 🍂

#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #fallinChicago #millenniumpark #thebean
📸: @barrybutler9 via Instagram
November 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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If your holiday aesthetic is “grand architecture + festive chaos,” have we got the tours for you. 🫵 🚂🎄🎅

Macy’s windows? ✅
Union Station glow-up? ✅
Palmer House drama? ✅
Christkindlmarket finale? ✅
🎟️ Get tix before they sell out!
https://bit.ly/4dT00eZ
#allfortheloveofchicago #Chicago #architecture
November 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Somewhere in those trees, someone is taking engagement photos right now. Guaranteed. 🍁💍
#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #autumn #millenniumpark
📸: @waywelling via Instagram
November 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Chicago teens, want to build your future in architecture, engineering, and design? The CAC’s FREE Teen Fellows Program offers college credit, mentorship, and paid experience. Applications are now open!
www.architecture.org/events-progr...
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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☕🚽 For anyone who has ever bought a coffee just to use the bathroom...
2026 is your year.

From @blockclubchi, city to get its first city-backed public restroom: https://bit.ly/47Dq1gu

📸: Ondosan Sinaga / Pexels
November 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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The South Side’s most joyful building? The Gary Comer Youth Center, a global model for youth empowerment through design. 🩵
https://bit.ly/4nDxeDg
📸: Gary Comer Youth Center, Architect: John Ronan Architects, Photographer: Eric Allix Rogers
November 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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See mid-century modern history up close 🏡

Join the Kenilworth Historical Society for an Open House at 303 Sheridan Road, a 1958 Keck & Keck masterpiece still in its original condition. 😮

Don’t miss this rare look inside!

🗓️11/1, 3–5 pm

RSVP https://bit.ly/47xz7Lv
#Chicago #allfortheloveofchicago
October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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🍁 Architecture hits different when the leaves change. Join a CAC tour. 🍁

🎟️ For information and tickets to these and all CAC tours, visit https://bit.ly/4hW7vDz

#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago
October 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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🍁 The time of year when Chicago's trees are 🔥
📸: @barrybutler9 via Instagram
#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagofall #fallinChicago
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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🍺🧱 An architecture "class", but with more beer and fewer deadlines.
Info & tix: https://www.architecture.org/events-programs/lego-libations-iswas
#Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago
LEGO & Libations
Who says LEGO are just for kids? Join the CAC team for a hands-on workshop and enjoy an interactive evening of creativity, design, and fun. Bring a friend or make new ones!
www.architecture.org
October 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM