LaSalle Bank Theater, Chicago

The Haskell Building

Originally designed by John Mills van Osdel, the city's first accredited architect after the Chicago Fire, this four-story building is one of the oldest in the Loop

Chase Tower

Located at the exact epicenter of CTA's Loop transit system, this 850ft building is distinctive for its vertical curve

Marquette Building

It's partially obscured by renovations, but this first-wave skyscraper still makes an immediate contrast with the modern Federal Center across the street

The Reliance Building

A then-unprecedented amount of glass was used in this early skyscraper, bewildering a public still used to masonry walls

Monadnock Building

Named appropriately for a mountain in New Hampshire, the Monadnock was the last tall building to be supported by its own walls (not a metal frame, although the 1893 addition by Holabird & Roche does use one)

Federal Center

This plaza includes Mies' Dirksen Federal Building and Kluczynski Federal Building (built eleven years apart), with a low-rise post office enveloped in their sleek black lines

Ford Center for the Performing Arts

Originally known as the Oriental Theater when it opened in 1926 as an ornate movie palace on the site of the former Iroquois Theater, the Ford Center for Performing Arts is a premier live performance venue that hosts Broadway productions

University of Chicago

The Gage Group

Louis Sullivan designed the northernmost of the three buildings here, and the team of Holabird & Roche added the next two

Jewelers Building

Louis Sullivan was only a draftsman at the time this was built, but there are some interesting designs nestled into expressive façade and the classic, powerful masonry walls