If the fam is stressing you out, walk it off with these tours. 👇 👀 Must-See Chicago (Bonus! Tour concludes at the Christkindlmarket) 🍾 Art Deco Skyscrapers: Landmark Lobbies 💎 Historic Treasures of Chicago's Golden Age 🥂 Art Deco: The Riverfront ℹ️ & 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4hW7vDz

🎄 Fireworks, ballet, warm drinks…CAC members did the holidays right. Thx for coming! ✉️ Want the invite next year? Join CAC. https://bit.ly/4g3G5um 📸: #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #Chicagoholidays #holidaysinChicago #holidays #holidayseason

Chicago’s Beaux-Arts buildings are basically giving “Roman Empire chic” and we’re here for the delusion. 💃 👀🏛️ https://bit.ly/4ifbdtb 📸: Chicago Cultural Center, Architect: Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, Photographer: Eric Allix Rogers #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #beauxarts

NYE countdown in Chicago is now officially a thing. 💁‍♀️ Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve is hosting its first-ever Central Time Zone countdown from the city. https://bit.ly/4pnBR5r 📸: Patrick L. Pyszka #Chicago #architecture #NYE #2026 #allfortheloveofchicago

⭐ Into gorgeous decay? 🏛️ Historic chaos? 🎥 Giant movie palaces? 👍 Cool, see you at our Uptown Theatre book talk, Dec 8. 📕 Grab your copy at the CAC Design Store and stick around for a book signing! 🔗 https://bit.ly/4pqB8k3 📸: CityFiles Press https://bit.ly/3XeMVG7

🎭 Chicago Theater: 100 years old and still photogenic in bad weather. ✨ 🤳 📸: @waywelling via Instagram #Chicago #architecture #Chicagotheatre #allfortheloveofchicago

If Chicago had a dating profile, these are the pics they'd use. 🤳 Framed Views brings together 60 of the best OHC photos from this year's photo competition. Opens 11/22 https://bit.ly/4a2tUOG 📸: Edgewater Beach Apartments, Architect: Benjamin Marshall, Photographer: John Sanford

🌬️ Chicago wind: tries to yeet you into the river Us: “Let’s take this indoors.” Stunning buildings. Zero hypothermia. 🎟️: architecture.org/city-tours #Chicago #architecture #buildingtours #merchandisemart #unionstation #reliancebuilding #oldpostoffice

Because scrolling pics of Chicago architecture isn’t the same as seeing it in person. 👟 🏠 Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park 🌊 Lakeshore Living: Steel and Stone 🎨 Tiffany in Chicago 💎 The Rookery Get tix and all the info at www.architecture.org/city-tours

🌟 Last night, the Northern Lights lit up our skyline in a breathtaking display. Who else caught it? 📸: @cdats via Instagram #Chicago #architecture #skyline #northernlights #chicagoskyline

Soldier Field has plaques, colonnades, and a Gold Star Memorial—a collection of beautiful public art designed as a love letter to U.S. veterans. Sending gratitude this Veterans Day and every day. ❤️🤍💙 📸: Soldier Field War Memorials, Photo: Craig Shimala #Chicago #allfortheloveofChicago #VeteransDay

This photo tastes suspiciously like a pumpkin spice latte and sounds like your boots crunching through the entire season. 📸: Nick Ulivieri via Instagram #Chicago #architecture #ChicagoinFall #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagoautumn

🎄Holiday cheer, incoming! 🎅 🛷 Millennium Park's Christmas Tree is a 68-foot spruce from suburban Glenview. It will be decorated and lit November 21. 📸: Patrick L.Pyszka, City of Chicago https://bit.ly/4owNAyR

Big preservation news: the Commission on Chicago Landmarks made its final recommendation to extend the Logan Square Historic District. Next stop: City Council for final approval. 💪 🏛️🍂 https://bit.ly/4hT7QrR 📸 921–923 N. Sacramento Ave

The man studied engineering in Paris, fought in the Civil War, then came to Chicago and invented the skyscraper. Clearly, “taking it easy” was not in William LeBaron Jenney's vocabulary. 💪 https://bit.ly/47PaGcV 📸: Home Insurance Building, Photo: Permission of Inland Architect and Builder

Not to be dramatic, but this is the time of year you go to see the Bean and wind up getting emotionally attached to the trees. 🤩 🍂 #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #fallinChicago #millenniumpark #thebean 📸: @barrybutler9 via Instagram

If your holiday aesthetic is “grand architecture + festive chaos,” have we got the tours for you. 🫵 🚂🎄🎅 Macy’s windows? ✅ Union Station glow-up? ✅ Palmer House drama? ✅ Christkindlmarket finale? ✅ 🎟️ Get tix before they sell out! https://bit.ly/4dT00eZ #allfortheloveofchicago #Chicago #architecture

Somewhere in those trees, someone is taking engagement photos right now. Guaranteed. 🍁💍 #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago #autumn #millenniumpark 📸: @waywelling via Instagram

Chicago teens, want to build your future in architecture, engineering, and design? The CAC’s FREE Teen Fellows Program offers college credit, mentorship, and paid experience. Applications are now open! www.architecture.org/events-progr...

☕🚽 For anyone who has ever bought a coffee just to use the bathroom... 2026 is your year. From @blockclubchi, city to get its first city-backed public restroom: https://bit.ly/47Dq1gu 📸: Ondosan Sinaga / Pexels

The South Side’s most joyful building? The Gary Comer Youth Center, a global model for youth empowerment through design. 🩵 https://bit.ly/4nDxeDg 📸: Gary Comer Youth Center, Architect: John Ronan Architects, Photographer: Eric Allix Rogers

See mid-century modern history up close 🏡 Join the Kenilworth Historical Society for an Open House at 303 Sheridan Road, a 1958 Keck & Keck masterpiece still in its original condition. 😮 Don’t miss this rare look inside! 🗓️11/1, 3–5 pm RSVP https://bit.ly/47xz7Lv #Chicago #allfortheloveofchicago

🍁 Architecture hits different when the leaves change. Join a CAC tour. 🍁 🎟️ For information and tickets to these and all CAC tours, visit https://bit.ly/4hW7vDz #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago

🍁 The time of year when Chicago's trees are 🔥 📸: @barrybutler9 via Instagram #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagofall #fallinChicago

🍺🧱 An architecture "class", but with more beer and fewer deadlines. Info & tix: https://www.architecture.org/events-programs/lego-libations-iswas #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago

📸 Chicago, you showed up! These amazing shots from #OHC2025 capture the city at its best. Swift Hall: @mwb0153 Emil Bach House: @quaintcities Edgewater Beach Apts: @leylairoyale Hilliard Apts: @scottanselmophoto OHC2026: Oct 17–18 OHC2025 Photo competition: https://bit.ly/3Lbg5TR

Ever notice the 🌀 swirl on Ionic columns? That’s a volute, a scroll often found on the top of classical columns. https://bit.ly/3J7nrap #Chicago #allfortheloveofchicago #architecture #volute #architecturedictionary

Loved Open House Chicago? Keep exploring this fall with CAC tours! Visit Graceland & Oak Woods Cemeteries, wander the underground Pedway, or step into Chicago’s dazzling Art Deco lobbies. 🍂 Info & tickets → https://bit.ly/4hW7vDz #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago

Don’t miss your last chance to walk the real grounds of the 1893 World’s Fair! 🌟 CAC’s Devil in the White City tour explores Jackson Park’s lasting architecture + eerie history. Final 2025 tour: Oct 25. Tickets: https://bit.ly/3WfECcK

That’s a wrap on #OHC2025! You braved the rain, traffic, and long lines—all for the love of Chicago ❤️ Huge thanks to our incredible volunteers 🙌 See you Oct 17–18 for #OHC2026! Got photos? Enter the OHC Photo Competition → https://bit.ly/4mQH0Sv

OHC is free thanks to you 🫵 Help keep it that way! Even a small gift to the Chicago Architecture Center keeps the festival going strong. ❤️ https://bit.ly/4h9viQT #OHC2025 #OHC2026 #allfortheloveofChicago

✅ Free t-shirt. ✅ Line-skipping powers. ✅ Architecture clout. 🔥👀🫶 All yours if you volunteer for #OHC2026. We need your help to make next year's OHC successful! Sign up today! https://bit.ly/3B2R8ow

📸 The 2nd annual OHC Photo Competition is on! Snap Chicago’s architecture this weekend + submit your best Interior, Exterior, Detail, or B&W shots. Winners featured at an upcoming exhibition at the CAC! https://bit.ly/4mQH0Sv #OHC2025 #ChicagoArchitecture #allfortheloveofchicago

📍Kick off OHC at a Neighborhood HQ! There's 🗞️ free Chicago Reader OHC edition, 🚻 restrooms, and sign up for 🪪 CAC membership (hello, priority access 👀). 🏛️ CAC – exhibits + design shop 🎭 Ramova – tours + music 🥃 KOVAL – free tastings (21+) 🌿 Starling – creative vibes + coffee https://bit.ly/47atWkv

This Open House Chicago, walk on in like you own the place. 💁‍♀️ 🏛️ Become a CAC member to get your Priority Access Pass 👑🎟️ https://bit.ly/4g3G5um

🏗️ For nearly 80 years, the site of 150 N Riverside was considered unbuildable—just 39 feet wide! Get inside this engineering marvel during #OHC2025. 🎨 BONUS: Sat 10/18, 11–1: be part of artist Gabriel Barcia-Colombo’s new digital art piece. https://bit.ly/4qfOBfU

🏙️🏃‍♂️💪 Chicago Marathon runners raced past some of the city’s most stunning architecture this past weekend. Congrats to all the finishers who showed what this city is made of! 🏙️🏃‍♂️💪 📸: @nick_ulivieri via Instagram #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago #chimarathon #marathon

🤝 Join us in Bronzeville for #OHC2025! Our Teen Ambassadors will share their research on the neighborhood’s architecture and history at six sites, Oct 18, 12:30–3:30. https://bit.ly/3NDM4K9 📸: South Side Community Art Center

✍️ Another inspiring Skyline Sketching workshop in the books! Participants captured Chicago’s skyline while learning perspective, proportion, and shading. Subscribe for future programs → architecture.org/subscribe #Chicago #Architecture

🗝️ Open House Chicago is just 4 days away! 🗺️ Plan your route or explore curated itineraries to make the most of OHC weekend: https://bit.ly/4h7Pl2q #OHC2025 #OpenHouseChicago #allfortheloveofchicago

🔥 On this night in 1871, the Great Chicago Fire began in the O’Leary barn. Cameras existed—but early ones were too slow to capture the chaos. What we have instead: Currier & Ives lithographs and a cry that still defines us “CHICAGO SHALL RISE AGAIN!” 💪 https://bit.ly/3ZIjjDI

🏆 Chicago has been named the Best Big City in US for the 9th year in a row! 🏙️ From world-class architecture & cultural icons to award-winning dining & innovation, it’s no wonder we’ve topped the Condé Nast Traveler list once again. 👏 https://bit.ly/46HKvWc @choosechicago.bsky.social

🏗️ On World Architecture Day (yesterday 🫣) , we celebrate Chicago, the city that turned architecture into an art form. 💛 📸: @barrybutler9 via Instagram #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago #WorldArchitectureDay #ArchitectureDay

On Wednesdays, we wear pink. 💅 Also Fridays. 😉 https://bit.ly/3WpHh3m 📸: Edgewater Beach Apartments, Architect: Marshall & Fox, Photographer: Eric Allix Rogers #Chicago #architecture #OHC2025 #OpenHouseChicago #EdgewaterBeach #MeanGirlsDay

Heading to the Chicago Marathon 🏃‍♂️? Whether you're running or cheering on the athletes 📣 , take a moment to take in the city. Here are a few buildings you'll see along the route. #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofChicago #Chicagomarathon #marathon #bankofamerica #Chicagohistory #historicChicago

🎉 Congrats to the National Public Housing Museum on winning the 2025 Driehaus Award for Adaptive Reuse AND the Driehaus Legacy Award! Their transformation of the last Jane Addams Homes into a civic & cultural destination honors history + imagines a more equitable future. https://bit.ly/4mJ8DMK

😎 It’s official: Avondale is 1 of the world’s coolest neighborhoods (#1 in the U.S.). See why during Open House Chicago at 🎳 Avondale Bowl 🚂 Diversey House 🎵 Electrical Audio 🍻 Lake Effect Brewing 🥃 Judson & Moore Distillery. #allfortheloveofChicago #OHC2025 #Chicago #Avondale https://bit.ly/4nTW5Do

🏗️ Before steel frames, 🧱 load-bearing walls held buildings up. The Monadnock shows both: massive brick walls on the north, steel frame on the south. A true milestone in Chicago architecture. 📸 Monadnock Building (Burnham & Root) #Chicago #architecture #allfortheloveofchicago https://bit.ly/4gFh5ex

🎉 NEW FOR #OHC2025! 🎉 We’re thrilled to welcome the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation to this year’s #OpenHouseChicago lineup. Once the shuttered Emmet Elementary, this building now empowers the Austin community thru high-level workforce training & community-driven reuse. https://bit.ly/480tDee