CHICAGO — Chicago is known for its skyline and lakefront but tucked away in Lincoln Park is a place that feels worlds apart from the city around it. For years, the big wooden doors outside the Alfred ...

In 1955, Alfred Caldwell walked me through the Lincoln Park Rookery, as it was then known. An oasis of green amid the city’s concrete and brick, hustle and bustle, it was afterward renamed the Alfred ...

The glorious Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool — one of the city’s finest public gardens — has reopened after a much-needed two-year rehab. And the work comprises the pool’s first significant rehab in 25 ...

We’ve had a lot of architects in this town, some of them — Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan, Jeanne Gang and on and on — rising in notoriety and star-status equal in the civic celestial realm to ...