Cursed Places in Illinois

Riverview Park

💀💀💀💀 4.3/5 Chicago

Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967. It was located on 74 acres...

Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower)

💀💀💀💀 3.8/5 Chicago, IL

Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) consists of a structural steel frame that was pre-assembled in sections and then bol...

Winslow House

💀💀💀💀 3.7/5 River Forest, IL

The issue of monumentality seems to have been equally problematic for both Sullivan and Wright. Sullivan had already use...

Vietnam Veterans Dog Tag Memorial in Chicago

💀💀💀💀 3.7/5 None

At the Harold Washington Library in Chicago is a new art installation called “Above and Beyond” featuring ov...

Ruth and Sam Ford House

💀💀💀💀 3.7/5 Aurora, IL

The question arises, “why did I not have a formal academic education in architecture?” I was apprenticed at the age of 1...

The Lost City of Cahokia

💀💀💀💀 3.6/5 None

A thousand years before Columbus's men would land on the shores of America, a new city was sprouting on the floodplains ...

The Plan of Chicago

💀💀💀 3.2/5 Chicago, IL

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press . 1909 (reprinted in 1996). ISBN: 9781878271419 Chicago in the collective imagi...

Garvey House

💀💀💀 3.2/5 Urbana, IL

Garvey House No.1 was a very speculative project designed by Bruce Goff in 1954 for the violinist and professor John Gar...

Schiller Theater Building

💀💀💀 3.1/5 Chicago, IL

This view let me now state, for it brings to the solution of the problem a final, comprehensive formula: All things in n...

The Burning Town of Centralia, Pennsylvania

💀💀💀 3.1/5 None

Centralia is a small town located in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in the very heart of Anthracite country. In May 1962...