Charles Leroux

When you stand at the base of the 110-story, 1,450-foot-tall (to the top of the roof) Sears Tower and look up -- way up -- you get the uneasy feeling...

When you stand at the base of the 110-story, 1,450-foot-tall (to the top of the roof) Sears Tower and look up -- way up -- you get the uneasy feeling...

Only a little more than a year old, and already Millennium Park is everybody's baby. It has drawn flocks of residents and tourists alike, office workers on a lunch break...

Only a little more than a year old, and already Millennium Park is everybody's baby. It has drawn flocks of residents and tourists alike, office workers on a lunch break...

In 1914, at the corner of Clark and Addison Streets, where a seminary once had stood, Charles H. Weeghman built Weeghman Park, a home for his Federal League team named...

This story contains corrected material, published Aug. 26, 2005. A train that rumbles through the sky -- how wonderful is that? The elevated is never called anything but the "El"...

A train that rumbles through the sky -- how wonderful is that? The elevated is never called anything but the "El" or, in print at this paper, the "L." You...

British critic Oscar Wilde, on a brief, unhappy swing through Chicago, called the Water Tower (not Water Tower Place, the shopping mall, but Water Tower, the water tower) at Michigan...

British critic Oscar Wilde, on a brief, unhappy swing through Chicago, called the Water Tower (not Water Tower Place, the shopping mall, but Water Tower, the water tower) at Michigan...