The Good and Bad of Chicago Architecture: 20-Mile Races and Invasive Fish

If Chicago is known for one thing, it’s, well, political cronyism. Two things, ahem, pizza and bratwurst. We should probably add troubled sports teams, miserable winters, and the mafia. But somewhere on that list of known things would be the city’s architecture. We’re the adopted home of Mies van der Rohe, the headquarters of SOM, and we have one of the largest collections of impressive modern buildings of any city across the world. But unfortunately, Chicago architecture is in turmoil.