ArchitectureBoston | SHARE Nov–Dec 2019

In the early morning light of Chicago, if there is a lull in the traffic along Lake Shore Drive and you stand just so within the berms of the Burnham Wildlife Corridor along the Lakefront Trail south of McCormick Place, you can imagine what it must have been like for the early arrivals to this city: waist-deep waves of prairie grass rolling out to the west, the vast inland sea that is Lake Michigan to the east, the dawn sky an explosion of yellows and golds. The sense that anything is possible.