What’s That Building? Ferrara Bakery
The shop has been owned by the same family for more than a century and is just one part of Chicago’s rich history of candy production.
Lots of Chicago-area buildings make you stop and ask: “What’s that building?” So, WBEZ’s Reset collects the stories behind them!
The shop has been owned by the same family for more than a century and is just one part of Chicago’s rich history of candy production.
Several of the city’s migrant shelters have distinguished histories, either because of their architecture or ties to noteworthy figures.
Prudential stuck with its namesake high-rise in the Loop years after other corporations left their buildings. Now, the insurance company is leaving for a smaller office in the city — and taking its …
The former home of Schulze Baking Company, and a succession of other breadmakers, has sat unused for two decades — and is likely to stay that way for the foreseeable future.
A beloved statue along Historic Route 66 was removed from its spot in front of a Wilmington, Ill., restaurant — but it will return to the town.
A coalition of former Cabrini-Green residents, entrepreneurs and preservationists wants to buy the building from its present owner and reopen it as Cabrini Art House.
Now called the CYC Sidney Epstein Youth Center, 3415 W. 13th Place was established in 1930 as a memorial to Bobby Franks, who was brutally murdered at age 14.
The shop has been owned by the same family for more than a century and is just one part of Chicago’s rich history of candy production.
Prudential stuck with its namesake high-rise in the Loop years after other corporations left their buildings. Now, the insurance company is leaving for a smaller office in the city — and taking its …
Several of the city’s migrant shelters have distinguished histories, either because of their architecture or ties to noteworthy figures.
Set in the 1930s, ‘A Christmas Story’ takes place in the fictitious town of Hohman. These are the real-life places in Hammond, Indiana that inspired the iconic holiday movie.
The structure was originally the centerpiece of a 22-acre park built in the 1930s for workers of the Ilg Electrical Ventilation Company.
A cluster of apartment buildings in Kenwood have Native-inspired names and decorative schemes.