Much of the general attention on Chicago architecture focuses on the skyscrapers of the late-19th and early-20th centuries or on the Prairie-style residential designs of such architects as Walter Burley Griffin, George Maher, or Frank Lloyd Wright. Often overlooked are the landmark buildings from Chicago's so-called Modern Era, beginning about 1935 when construction resumed during the Great Depression.

This tour features a variety of more contemporary architecture by such prominent designers Bruce Goff, Keck & Keck, Andre Rebori, and the master modernist, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. it also includes several significant sites and structures, such as a recording studio for early blues and rock n' roll music and the test site for the first, self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction.

860-880 Lake Shore Drive Bachman House Chess Records Office and Studio Crown Hall First Church of Deliverance Fisher Studio Houses Heald Square Monument Inland Steel Building Keck-Gottschalk-Keck Apartments Nuclear Reaction Site Turzak House Daley Center

You will find tour links in this location on every page. Look for this arrow to continue the The Modern Era tour.