Welcome to Classic Chicago, the online magazine that celebrates the traditional qualities of a great world city. Chicago and its suburbs offer a wealth of historic residential design, pivotal commercial architecture, magnificent interiors and a rich social and cultural history rivaling any in the nation, yet until now there has been no local periodical devoted to these subjects. Classic Chicago strives to fill this niche in a lively and entertaining manner, while also documenting the people within the region and their style. Chicago area residents throughout roughly eighteen decades have included some of the most vivid personalities of their time. Although individuals from all eras—especially our own–may be chronicled in Classic Chicago, every effort is made to avoid undue focus on today’s usual media “suspects.”