Brilliant designer, consummate city man, piercing wit, Harry Weese is such a Chicago original that only he could have invented himself. For decades, he was the city’s conscience, chastising the ...

Architect Harry Weese was in trouble. He had just arrived in Accra, the palm-fringed capital of West Africa’s Gold Coast, and what had seemed a minor problem back in his Chicago office suddenly ...

One of the most interesting finds in Preservation Chicago's "seven most-endangered" buildings list is the midcentury modern former State Bank of Clearing.

Harry Weese, the renowned architect who shaped Chicago’s skyline and the way the city thought about everything from the lakefront to its treasure-trove of historical buildings, died Thursday in ...

The tower would be the first Weese-designed Chicago building to achieve individual landmark status. It was Weese’s first high-rise. The architect, who died in 1998 at 83, designed a run of ...

In a Mid-Century Modern town where excitement builds over nearly any new construction, architect Ben Weese’s design of Northside Middle School in 1961 generated an underwhelming response.