The corncob towers of Marina City are world-famous icons of Chicago architectural creativity and ingenuity, but lesser-known are the public-housing project designed by the same Bertrand Goldberg. Hilliard opened just a few years after Marina City, in a time when Johnson’s Great Society still had us believing that aesthetics, affluence and social progress were compatible concepts. Now, Chicago is progressively dismantling its housing projects as failures, except Hilliard Homes, which was recently rehabbed and turned into an apartment rental complex known as Hillard Towers Apartments.
Marina City, 300 North State; Hilliard Towers Apartments, 2031 South Clark
Chicago Social: Sam Cushing Takes the Windy City into the Influencer Realm Starting out on Instagram when he was living abroad in South America a scant three years ago, Cushing has expanded his range to YouTube with videos that discuss his experiences and offer advice on everything from exercise routines to travel.
