This is a collection of Chicago's baby photos. See the Adler Planetarium, Navy Pier, the Northern Trust Bank Building, Harper Library, the Mandel Brothers Store and the LaSalle Hotel, then and now. more ›

This morning the Old Town School of Folk Music debuted its fancy new digs across the street from its other Lincoln Square location, and it started its 55-day celebration of the institution's 55-year anniversary. more ›

WTTW will premiere Chicago’s Loop: A New Walking Tour, the latest in Geoffrey Baer's series of tours, tomorrow night at 7:30 p.m. We discussed the new documentary with Baer. more ›

If you're a flickr user and wish to have your photography considered for "Around Town" or other Chicagoist features, please tag your photos with "Chicagoist" and enter them into our flickr pool. more ›

The pipes of Rockerfeller Chapel's E.M. Skinner organ are huge. They kick off today's gallery. more ›

Look for the cutest photo of two kangaroos at Lincoln Park Zoo in today's gallery. more ›

We have a nice shot of Farnsworth House at the top of today's gallery. more ›

Today's galley is rife with street scenes. more ›

If you're a flickr user and wish to have your photography considered for "Around Town" or other Chicagoist features, please tag your photos with "Chicagoist" and enter them into our flickr pool. more ›

To celebrate the Chicago Theatre's 90th birthday today, we dug deep to find some favorite photos of the interior, detail and the theater's famous marquee. Enjoy. more ›

Today's gallery is a bit architecture heavy. That isn't a bad thing. more ›

In honor of Jeanne Gang's MacArthur Fellowship, today's gallery is full of photographs of her architecture and landscape designs. more ›

Gang is best known for Aqua, The 82-story mixed-use skyscraper on Columbus Drive. more ›

The Landmarks Illinois Preservation Council released its list of the 40 most significant preservation achievements since it formed in 1971. Chicago owes a major debt to the organization. more ›

British Developer Bill Davies has no small plans for the Old Chicago Post Office, as revealed in his redevelopment project yesterday. more ›

Developer Steven Romalewski has created an iPhone app that allows users to discover the historical architectural landmarks of the city with just a couple of taps of a touchscreen. more ›

Frank Lloyd Wright's best example of Prairie style architecture is set to receive the LEGO treatment. more ›

An influential historic preservation think tank adds old Prentice Women's Hospital to its list of America's 11 most endangered buildings. more ›

The Tribune reports today that CME Group, owners of the Chicago Board of Trade Building, has hired brokers to market a sale of the classic Art Deco-style building. more ›

The owners of Willis Tower have hired two brokerages to market the nation's tallest skyscraper in the search for an investor or an outright sale of the building. more ›

Today's agenda for the city Landmarks Commission includes a preliminary landmark recommendation hearing for the former Chicago Motor Club building that, if granted, could give the building a new lease on life. more ›

Photographer Joseph Fouts also has a passion for creating high-resolution virtual tours of his photography, which he's parlayed into a business called 360 Comes Alive. Fouts recently contacted us to share with us links for virtual tours he's created of Holy Name Cathedral and City Methodist Church in Gary, IN.The City Methodist Church tour sucked a good portion of our work day away yesterday as we zoomed in and out, enraptured with the detail of Fouts's work. more ›

The Obama campaign machinery is being tuned up for the President's 2012 re-election campaign. Sun-Times Washington Bureau chief Lynn Sweet reports that Obama will be hosting a series of events across the country in donor cities very lucrative for Democratic fundraising to officially kick off the Obama 2012 campaign. The Obama 2012 team will also call the Prudential Building its headquarters. The new location is steps from Obama's 2008 campaign HQ and overlooks Grant Park, which famously hosted Obamapalooza. more ›

In honor of the legendary Chicago architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who was born on this day in 1886, here's a delightful (and informative!) ear worm for you: more ›

A 150-square foot former White Castle at Cermak and Wabash may be granted landmark status, according to an article in today's Sun-Times. The restaurant has been a gourmet chicken shack for close to 30 years, but owner Dave Gupta (who used to send us press releases for his restaurant as "Chef Luciano") and his son Rocky have restored the building on the southeast corner of the intersection to its full architectural glory. The Commission on Chicago Landmarks proposed the designation earlier this month and the Guptas are in full support of the move. more ›

Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin reports on a discovery of sketches for a proposed clock that, had they ever been actualized, would have graced the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. Building. more ›

The above photo of a car elevator in the Loop during in 1936 has been making the rounds, via facebook, Windy Citizen, and Tumblr sites. It first came to our attention via "Letters of Note" (You remember them? They shared the 1991 letter from Madonna in which she expressed her displeasure with Chicago men.) editor Shaun Usher, who posted this via Twitpic. more ›

Last week it was Willis Tower where we had to keep an eye out for falling ice. Today, it's the Hancock Center. Streets have been closed around the skyscraper after reports of falling ice. Traffic was shut down on East Delaware Place between Michigan and Wabash. No injuries have been reported thus far. more ›

The recent thaw has made the "Danger - Falling Ice" signs we see throughout downtown more than just for show. Ice falling from Willis Tower forced the closing of streets around the skyscraper yesterday and injured two people; one of them a paramedic responding to the other person being hit by ice. more ›

If you've got an extra $1 billion lying around, then you might be in luck. Chicago's Merchandise Mart, a noted landmark, is rumored to be up for sale. According to Crain's, Merch Mart's future sale has been an idea that has been floating around for some time:

Parent company Vornado Realty Trust has been dropping hints along Wall Street and with potential buyers that it wants to sell the subsidiary, including the fortress-like structure along the Chicago River. The New York real estate investment trust purchased it from the Kennedy family in 1998 for $630 million. Vornado's efforts already have yielded a $1.25-billion offer, but that deal died last month, people familiar with the negotiations say.