The Berwyn Township and Public Health District, located at 6600 W. 26th Street in Berwyn, Illinois, was built in 1939 with the help of the Works Progress Administration and was designed by architect Vladimir J. Novak.
The Terrance J. O’Brien Water Reclamation Plant, located at 3500 Howard Street in Skokie, Illinois, has operated since 1928 and currently cleans an average of 230 million gallons of wastewater per day.
“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized.” Daniel Burnham, Chicago architect, 1864-1912. Mural located at Cortland and Marcey in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.
William Shakespeare Monument, located at 2305 N. Stockton Drive in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, was created in 1893 by artist William Ordway Partridge, who said “Shakespeare needs nothing of bronze. His monument is England, America, and the whole of Saxondom.”
The service entrances for the vintage apartment building at 179 and 181 N. Grove Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois are on Ontario Street and feature interesting decorative grotesques.
The Hill neighborhood in St. Louis has some lovely homes.
The Obama Presidential Library, as seen from the Jackson Park Lagoon on Chicago’s South Side, is now open.
Margate Field House, located at 4921 N. Marine Drive and part of Chicago’s Lincoln Park, was built in 1957.
A nifty commercial space located at 2140 S. Wesley in Berwyn, Illinois.
The art deco details on the South DuSable Lake Shore Drive bridge over 47th Street are a beautiful example from the 1930s.
A beautiful terra cotta art deco garage located at 1117 W. Ardmore in Chicago likely built in the 1920s when the neighborhood was the Northside’s motor row.
Union Tower, part of Student Center East, at University of Illinois Chicago is located at 710S. Halsted and was designed by Walter Netsch in 1965.
In Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos Islands in Ecuador, Indefatigable Avenue becomes a pedestrian only walkway.
A public art mural by Upcycle Arts program in Puerto Ayora on Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos Islands.
A curious aspect of the Galápagos Islands: buildings are often built in stages as material becomes available but are occupied while only partially built. This building is located on Isabela Island.
San Vicente Hotel on Isabela Island on the Galápagos Islands
Lelia Restaurant in Floreana Island in the Galápagos Island, Ecuador
The Catedral Inmaculada Concepción in Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, San Cristóbal Island, Galapagos Islands, features unique stained glass windows that depict local wildlife including the sea lions that dominate the waterfront a block away.
Galapagos animals as gargoyles at the Basilica Nacional del Voto in Quito, Ecuador
Built in 1961, the former Terminal Building at Meigs Field is now a field house for the Chicago Park District’s Northerly Island Park. In 2003, Chicago demolished—by gouging large x-marks in the runway in the middle of the night—the small airport along the lake front to create a lovely park.
The Dr. Conrad Worrill Indoor Track and Field Center at Gately Park was built in 2021 as part of the Chicago Park District and is located at 10201 S. Cottage Grove in Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood.
Saint Odilo Church and School is located at 2244 South East Avenue in Berwyn, Illinois. The school building (originally housed both the church and school) was built in 1928. The church was built in 1962.
The Century Building, located at 202 S. State Street in Chicago, was designed by Holabird & Roche and built in 1915. The building is owned by the US Government and is currently vacant.
The Tomek House, a prairie school design by Frank Lloyd Wright, was completed in 1906 and is located in Riverside, Illinois.
Batcolumn, a hundred foot sculpture of a baseball bat, was created in 1977 by Claus Oldenburg and is located at600 West Madison in Chicago.
Community Sparks Innovation, a mural by Brandin Hurley, is on Lakeside Brazilian Ju-Jitsu at 4101 N. Broadway in Chicago’s Buena Park neighborhood.
Part of Chicago’s Cows on Parade, a public art exhibit in the Summer of 1999 featuring hundreds of cows decorated by local artists, Richard Hunt’s Freeform Cow is still on display in the Bilandic Building at 160 N. LaSalle.
The Meyercord Company building at 5323 W. Lake Street in Chicago was designed by architects Abel Faidy and Julius Floto in the 1930s and still is a striking building. The Meyercord Company made signs and decals.
