Classics

Downtown Chicago architecture features every sort of building. The first of these, shown with the Artist's Snack Shop on the first floor, was originally a Studebaker factory. Yes, they built cars right on Michigan Avenue, with the process beginning with parts of the top floor and the final product emerging down on the ground level. The other image shows the classic frontage of a turn-of-the-century building a century ago, when windows were so much more important than they are today. Windows were the major method of lighting and cooling at the time, and bay windows provide more of both of these.