But in a letter about the statement, Burnham`s son, Daniel Jr., wrote that Polk ”assembled the quotation by picking out sentences” from a speech Burnham gave in London in 1910.

Renovated by Blue Star Properties with architect Aric Lasher of Chicago-based HBRA, the eatery, whose name is a nod to Burnham’s Classical Revival style of architecture, spans a sprawling 24,000 ...

The Chicago that Daniel Burnham confronted in 1909 still mirrored the one described by Rudyard Kipling back in the 1880s: “I have struck a city—a real city—and they call it Chicago.

Designing a public memorial to Daniel Burnham, the great Chicago architect and planner, is no small challenge. Should it be a 3-D realization of Burnham’s oft-quoted epigram, “Make no l… ...

Designed by architect Daniel Burnham, its striking 22-story-high, wedge-shaped structure soon became an iconic architectural site, even appearing in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy, symbolizing ...

Architect David Woodhouse won the competition to design a memorial to Chicago planner Daniel Burnham, officials from AIA Chicago Foundation announced Thursday. Odd News // 1 decade ago The almanac ...

They called it the White City. It was as magical a creation as the Emerald City of Oz, built in less than two years by architect Daniel H. Burnham in a swamp eight miles south of downtown Chicago ...

It was then that new homeowner and architect Hubert Burnham—son of legendary Chicago designer and urban planner Daniel Burnham—added a centrally-located glass-topped conservatory and a ...

"Make no little plans,” the Chicago architect Daniel Burnham once remarked. “They have no magic to stir men’s blood.” If Burnham, the most famous builder of his era, could meet the men and ...

'Singular' Daniel Burnham-Designed Mansion Asks $8.95M [Curbed Chicago] Next Up In For Sale in Chicago Built in 1929, stunning ‘octagonal bungalow’ asks $669K in Oak Park ...

More than 3,000 lights adorned Ferris' wheel. Stock Montage / Getty Images. In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago into a world ...