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Media features and articles highlighting the Chicago Architecture Center.

Media features and articles highlighting the Chicago Architecture Center.

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“Framed Views” At Chicago Architecture Center

"The exhibition showcases Chicago’s built environment through the work of forty-five finalists from the nonprofit’s first photography contest, which was part of this year’s Open House Chicago."

November 21, Newcity

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Weigh in on City Planning

"What do you value in our city’s built environment? Residents have options to provide their input on what’s best for the city’s development, the head of the Chicago Architecture Center writes."

by Eleanor Esser Gorski , October 25, Chicago Sun-Times

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Girls Build! Day 2024

"Girls Build! at Chicago Architecture Center teaches hands on learning"

August 10, Fox32 Chicago

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2022

THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER

2021

CAC RIVER CRUISE ABOARD CHICAGO'S FIRST LADY

2020

CAC RIVER CRUISE ABOARD CHICAGO'S FIRST LADY

2019

THE CHICAGO ARCHITECTURE CENTER

TOURS

  • Chicago Architecture Foundation Center River Cruise aboard Chicago’s First Lady and other CAC tours — “Best Tour,” Chicago Reader
  • Historic Treasures of Chicago’s Golden Age tour — GetYourGuide award

2018

  • AIA Illinois Richard Nickel Award for (non-architect) citizens who lift up architecture and the profession awarded to Lynn Osmond, Hon AIA, CAC President and CEO
  • Chicago Architecture Foundation [Center] River Cruise listed under Illinois in Money magazine's "This Is the Most Popular Tourist Attraction in Every State" article


2017

  • River Cruise named "Best Tour" in Chicago Reader's "Best of Chicago 2017" issue
  • "#1 Chicago Boat Tour" dubbed by Time Out Chicago in July 2017
  • U.S. News & World Report named the Chicago Architecture Foundation [Center] River Cruise aboard Chicago's First Lady Cruises as one of the top six tours in Chicago for first-time visitors
  • No Small Plans made Curbed.com's list of "101 Books About Where and How We Live." It ranked at #74, alongside impressive works by authors like Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, W.E.B. Dubois and Studs Terkel.
  • @chiarchitecture named "Best Instagram Account to Follow" in Chicago Reader's "Best of Chicago 2017" issue

2016

2015

  • Based on TripAdvisor user reviews, the "official" Chicago Architecture Foundation [Center] River Cruise aboard Chicago's First Lady Cruises is the #1 ranked tour in Chicago and a top 10 tour in the U.S. in 2015

2014

  • Keystone Award, American Architectural Foundation

2013

  • Congress for the New Urbanism
  • American Society of Landscape Architects
  • American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement for DiscoverDesign.org