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The non-profit organization Urban Rivers is currently fundraising to deploy a remote-controlled, trash-cleaning robot on the Chicago River. Urban Rivers already has a prototype out in the water and hopes to expand this into...

A bustling city is the last place you'd ever expect to find a farm. But urban agriculture is alive and well, providing city dwellers with local, sustainable food. These days, you can find urban farms inside warehouses,...

A new Apple Store has just opened in downtown Chicago—and it’s an architectural beauty. Designed by Foster + Partners, Apple Michigan Avenue follows the tech giant’s new (and controversial) “Town Square” store concept...

For the past few months, drinking fountains in Chicago have been running non-stop because the water pipes there contains “dangerously high” lead levels...

A food incubator planned for Chicago's East Garfield Park could provide much-needed economic growth for a struggling community. Nearly 40 percent of households there live below the poverty level, according to the Chicago...

Around two months ago the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President Donald Trump took down climate change information that had been on their website...

Barack Obama's Chicago roots run deep. The nation's 44th president worked as a community organizer on the South Side where he launched his political career by winning a seat in the Illinois State Senate. His wife, First Lady...

As President Obama looks to a future post POTUS, one of his foundation's first tasks will be to construct the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. President Franklin Roosevelt formally started the presidential library tradition...

Located in Chicago’s Garfield Ridge neighborhood, the AGC is a fast-growing K-8 Public Charter School that will soon welcome a pre-K program. To accommodate its growing student body, AGC hired Studio Gang to design a new...

Magnetic levitation (aka “maglev”) technology mostly associated with high-speed trains, but could someday cross over into the world of architecture...

The building, located at University of Chicago Laboratory School's main campus, reinterprets the 1904 limestone facade of the neighboring Belfield Hall and establishes a visual dialogue between the old and the new...

More than 250 professors at the former home of Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders sign petition, but university resists over tradition

Envisioned as a “theater in a park,” the new Writers Theater is surrounded by parkland and emphasizes a connection to the outdoors with the building’s most defining feature: the Grand Gallery Walk...

Serious indoor agriculture used to be reserved for people who were into black lights and excessive incense burning, but the times are definitely changing. Now, a number of savvy business folk are investing in vertical indoor...

The world’s largest rooftop farm covers nearly two acres, is run completely on renewable energy, and produces nearly 10 million annual crops of local, premium-quality, pesticide-free, leafy greens, and herbs...