ChiRA #1
- Contributors
- Phillip Cox, Alexander Luckmann, Ian Becker, Annette LePique, Elizabeth Blasius, Kate Wagner, Jeremy Lybarger, Eric Schwartau, Joe Engleman, Martin Seay, Francesco Marullo, Natalie Fox, AJ LaTrace, Hayden Tutty, Anna Kornbluh, Morley Musick, Anjulie Rao, William Harris, Zach Mortice, Annie Howard, James Andrew Billingsley, Keefer Dunn, Toby Altman, Pete Segall, & Nicolas Kemper
- Editor
- Samuel Medina
- Deputy Editor
- Chloe Wyma
- Publisher
- Nicolas Kemper
- Associate Publishers
- Nicholas Raap & Lari Rutschmann
- Art Director
- Laura Coombs
- Cover Illustrator
- Sean C. Suchara
- Illustrators
- Tom Bachtell, Ivan Brunetti, Madi Fang, Sophie Lucido Johnson, Sean C. Suchara, & Ollie Wootton
- Operations
- Michael Piantini
- Contributing Editors
- Thomas de Monchaux, Clare Fentress, Eric Schwartau, & Aaron Timms
- Proofreader
- Don Armstrong
- Editorial Advisors
- Zach Mortice, Anjulie Rao, & Kate Wagner
- Coeditor
- Nick Murray
- Digital Coordinator
- Naman Agarwal
- Comic Artist
- Claire Barliant
- Editorial Assistant
- Olivia Oldham
- Caption Contest Illustrator
- Madelon Vriesendorp
Articles
Will a historic West Side landmark ever be resurrected?
The Sheboygan plumbingware giant—still churning out crappers—aims to turn the lavatory into a lifestyle.
The residential hotel defined “Hobohemia.” Then it vanished.
No other presidential library has ever prioritized community engagement in its very design.
Anna Kornbluh and Morley Musick debate the Obama Presidential Center.
Obama smiles all day on a four-story video installation called Power of Words, which is about the power of images, not words.
How spin, spectacle, and a strong-arm mayor remade the skyline
History beckons from Michael Reese Hospital’s sole remaining building.
On the West Side of Chicago, Fred Hampton’s assassination was litigated through architectural media.
Lake Shore Drive is a sixteen-mile monument to civic madness.
What is Chicago for? The answer is still up for grabs.