Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

Location of the Real World's disastrous, and protested, eleventh season.

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

No one knows how many bodies are in this vault in a Chicago public park.

Rifle through images of skyscrapers, Worlds Fairs, and more in the largest public postcard repository in America.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

An eccentric park and pool.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

The final resting place of up to 6,000 Confederate soldiers, the largest mass grave in the Western Hemisphere.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

First planned industrial community in the United States.

A little-known subterranean street runs under some of the best-known buildings in Chicago's River North.

Built to house a chapter of the Knights Templar, this grandiose building is a relic of Freemasonry in Chicago a century ago.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

The twin towers in this Chicago fountain use 50 foot tall video screens to spit on people.