After revelations that dozens of dogs at a high-rise in Chicago's River North district were getting zapped simply going into and out of the building, the city is now getting involved.

Yack emphasized that high-rise residents should try to get to the lowest shelter space. But if getting to a lower floor isn’t an option, getting to the “most interior part of the building ...

Designed by famed architect William Le Baron Jenney and completed in 1885, it rose 10 stories (and eventually 12, after an ...

Sherwin Asrow, one of the founding members and former chairman of the Chicago Committee on High Rise Buildings, died Oct. 3 at the age of 101. Asrow was a structural engineer involved in projects ...

A 26-year veteran of the Chicago Fire Department died while responding to a blaze in a high-rise apartment building on Wednesday morning, the second firefighter to die in the city in as many days ...

CHICAGO, Jan 25 (Reuters) - A fast-moving fire on Wednesday spread to nine floors of a high-rise apartment building on Chicago's South Side, killing one person and injuring eight, including a ...

A 3-year-old boy plummeted to his death out of a screened window at a high-rise apartment building in Chicago, police said. The child, identified Wednesday as Chaise Binion, fell out of an 18th ...

Jan. 25 (UPI) --One person is dead and nine injured after a fire at a high-rise apartment building in Chicago Wednesday morning left officials searching for its cause.

This pilot program opens numerous possibilities, especially for buildings with inoperable windows or all-glass facades, which frankly includes most of the Chicago office and hotel high-rise buildings.

Illinois Chicago firefighter critically injured while battling high-rise building fire on city's North Side IL firefighters eliminated most of the blaze by mid-morning, still addressing hot spots ...

CHICAGO — A new book and Chicago Architecture Center exhibit highlight several of the city’s high-rise buildings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

According to the Chicago Fire Department, the high-rise apartment near the 6700 block of South Shore Drive caught fire on the 10th floor just after 9:30 a.m. No sprinklers were inside the building.