Chicago Loop Loses an Architect, Gains a Pineapple

Written By Editor on December 27, 2016 in hotels, Skyscrapers, The Loop, _story

Chicago has a long history of honoring the people who shaped this city by naming buildings after them. When they’re dead. And few dead Chicago architects have as much street cred as Daniel Burnham. But just weeks after a local company set yet another example, naming its new hotel after Zachary Davis, the architect of Wrigley Field, a west coast interloper has erased the name Burnham from the Reliance Building at 1 West...