Editing Architecture of Chicago (section)

==Landmarks, monuments and public places==
[[File:View_of_Chicago_Water_Tower_from_the_table_(32580255030).jpg|thumb|[[Chicago Avenue Pumping Station]] and [[Chicago Water Tower|Water Tower]] in the [[Old Chicago Water Tower District]]]]
[[File:St._John_Cantius_Chicago_-_Photo_Walk_Chicago_September_2,_2013-4885.jpg|thumb|[[St. John Cantius in Chicago|St. John Cantius]], one of Chicago's '[[Polish Cathedral]]s']]
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Numerous architects have constructed landmark buildings of varying styles in Chicago. Among them are the so-called "Chicago seven":  [[James Ingo Freed]], [[Tom Beeby]], [[Larry Booth]], [[Stuart Cohen]], [[James Nagle (architect)|James Nagle]], [[Stanley Tigerman]], and [[Ben Weese]].
[[Daniel Burnham]] led the design of the "White City" of the 1893 [[World's Columbian Exposition]] which some historians claim led to a revival of [[Neo-Classical architecture]] throughout Chicago and the entire United States. Burnham developed the 1909 "[[Plan for Chicago]]" in a Neo-Classical style, although many skyscrapers were built after the Exposition closed, between 1894 and 1899. [[Louis Sullivan]] said that the fair set the course of American architecture back by two decades, but his work the Schlesinger and Meyer (later [[Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building|Carson, Pirie, Scott]]) store was built in 1899{{sfnp|Bach|1980|pp=34-37}}—five years after the "White City" and ten years before Burnham's Plan.

[[Erik Larson (author)|Erik Larson]]'s history of the Columbian Exposition, ''[[The Devil in the White City]]'', says that the building techniques developed during the construction of the many buildings of the fair were entirely modern, even if they were adorned in a way Sullivan found aesthetically distasteful.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Devil in the White City}}</ref>

Chicago's [[public art]] includes outdoor works by [[Chagall]], [[Picasso]], [[Joan Miró|Miró]] and [[Magdalena Abakanowicz|Abakanowicz]].

City sculptures additionally honor people and topics from the [[history of Chicago]]. There are monuments to:
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* '''[[Tadeusz Kościuszko]]''' by [[Kazimierz Chodzinski]]
* '''[[Nicholas Copernicus]]''' by [[Bertel Thorvaldsen]]
* '''[[Karel Havlíček Borovský]]''' by Joseph Strachovsky
* '''[[Pope John Paul II]]''', several different monuments (including by [[Czesław Dźwigaj]])
* '''[[Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk]]''' by [[Albin Polasek]]
* '''[[Irv Kupcinet]]''' by [[Preston Eugene Jackson]]
* '''[[Abraham Lincoln]]''' by [[Augustus Saint Gaudens]]
* The '''[[Heald Square Monument]]''' featuring [[George Washington]], [[Haym Salomon]], and [[Robert Morris (financier)|Robert Morris]] by [[Lorado Taft]], (completed by [[Leonard Crunelle]])
* '''[[Christopher Columbus]]''' by [[Carl Brioschi]]
* '''[[General John A. Logan]]''' by [[Augustus Saint Gaudens]]
* '''[[Harry Caray]]''' by Omri Amrany and [[Lou Cella]]
* '''[[Jack Brickhouse]]''' by [[Jerry McKenna]]
* A memorial to the '''[[Haymarket affair]]''' by [[Mary Brogger]]
* A memorial to the '''[[Great Migration (African American)|Great Northern Migration]]''' by [[Alison Saar]]
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There are also plans to erect a 1:1-scale replica of [[Wacław Szymanowski]]'s [[Chopin Statue, Warsaw|statue]] of [[Frédéric Chopin]] along Chicago's lakefront.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chopinmonumentinchicago.com |title=Chopin Monument in Chicago}}</ref> in addition to a different sculpture commemorating the artist in [[Chopin Park (Chicago)|Chopin Park]].

In the 21st century, Chicago has become an urban focus for [[landscape architecture]] and the architecture of public places. 19th-20th century Chicago architects included Burnham, [[Frederick Olmsted]], [[Jens Jensen (landscape architect)|Jens Jensen]] and [[Alfred Caldwell]], modern projects include [[Millennium Park]], [[Northerly Island]], the [[Bloomingdale Line|606]], the [[Chicago Riverwalk]], [[Maggie Daley Park]], and proposals in [[Jackson Park (Chicago)|Jackson Park]].<ref>Kamin, Blair (July 19, 2015) "Landscape Design Takes Center Stage: Chicago leads way in architecture trend focus on public spaces" Sec 1. p 7.</ref>