Walking tours of Chicago
More of the dated building in Chicago went up in the 1920s than in any other decade. Holabird & Root is named on more of them than any other architect.
2 themed routes run through those listings. Of the routes below, one follows a single style and one follows a single decade. A subject becomes a route only where the register holds enough of it close enough together to walk.
Every listing in Chicago → · 419 in all
The routes
- StyleChicago School architecture in Chicago15 stops · 1.6 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Chicago School names commercial buildings raised on steel frames, with wide windows, expressed structural bays and little applied ornament. The Chicago examples on this route went up between 1888 and 1895.
- Decade builtChicago in the 1890s10 stops · 2.1 miles · stops last changed Sep 18, 2026Every stop carries a construction date in the 1890s. Chicago School is the style recorded on more of them than any other.
Every route holds at least ten stops and stays under two and a half miles. Routes are computed from the coordinates in the National Park Service National Register spatial data or, where it has no point, Wikidata, and the distances are straight lines between stops. Listings with a restricted address in the Register are never mapped and never become stops. Data refreshed November 02, 2026.
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Guidebooks to historic places and travel in Illinois
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