From the Brown Line platform at Irving Park you can see what looks like a field house or maybe even a hangar, a tall, window-filled building with an unusual shape. I’d always wondered what it was, and during the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s annual architecture tour, Open House Chicago, I got to find out. At 4025 N. Ravenswood, it’s a former billboard factory that’s now been repurposed into the Ravenswood Event Center. See for yourself below, where there are also peeks at some other sites.
And while on Goose Island, he checked out the fabrication studio Chicago Scenic Studios, at 1315 N. Branch, a 160,000-square-foot space that got its start in 1978 making sets and the like for off-Loop theater.
