The idea for Chicago Union Station was laid out by famed architect Daniel Burnham, who developed the 1909 Plan of Chicago.

During a Tuesday news conference to celebrate Union Station’s centennial, leaders highlighted the station’s history, ...

Amtrak and Illinois officials are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Chicago's Union Station Tuesday. The transit hub was ...

You only celebrate a 100th birthday once, and Amtrak made sure that the milestone for Chicago Union Station did not go ...

When Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago was presented in 1909, ... (since torn down) in Chicago, the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington. ...

Chicago’s Union Station was originally designed by architect Daniel Burnham and engineered to accommodate a vertical ... Although shorter than Burnham’s plans for a 315-foot tower, ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Daniel Burnham still looms large in Chicago's ...

The Chicago that Daniel Burnham confronted in 1909 still mirrored the one described by Rudyard Kipling back in the 1880s: ... Washington’s majestic if overblown Union Station.

The main train station for the nation’s capitol was built by City Beautiful movement architect Daniel Burnham and opened in 1907, fourteen years after Burnham’s rise as the Director of Works ...

A train departs Union Station on March 2 ... But should we take seriously an architectural proposal that tries to outdo or to ignore the main hall and sequence of Daniel Burnham’s original station?

A national landmark and one of the busiest multimodal transportation hubs in the country, Washington Union Station, designed by Daniel Burnham, is about to undergo some significant changes. The ...