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.

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… ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...