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Keywords – Architecture, Lake, New & Old, Hub, Historic, Windy

Population: 9,785,747
Incorporate: 1837
Nicknames: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi-Town,
Motto: Make No Small Plans, I Will

Tourism / Place branding / Historic Landmarks

• Inland Steel Building by Skidmore
• Music Box Theatre
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Emil Bach House
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s S.R. Crown Hall
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House
• Louis Sullivan’s Krause Music Store
• Sullivan Center
• The Art Institute of Chicago Museum
• Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio
• Museum of Science and Industry
• Pilsen, Latino neighborhood

Design businesses

• Sol Sender and Scott Thomas* – (Obama brand)
• Susan Dwyer * (Products + Craft)

Creative initiatives

• Chicago Bauhaus and Beyond
• Temporary Services

Local businesses

• Jet Set Modern
• Realtor

Institutions / Organizations

• Chicago Architecture Foundation
• AIA Chicago
• MCA Chicago
• Hull House Museum

Art and Design Schools

• The Art Institute of Chicago
• UIC Chicago
• College of Architecture and the Arts
• InCUBATE

Articles / Blogs / Other

• Chicago 2016 – Olympic Candidate City
• Chicago Model City exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation*
• The Real Chicago, Dwell
• Buckminster Fuller Exhibition – MCA Chicago
• Untouchable tours