In 1885, Chicago became home to the world's first skyscraper. Chicago is a city of firsts — everything from the first Ferris wheel to the first brownie and the world’s very first skyscraper. Chicago ...
In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...
It revolutionised the world of architecture and ushered in an era of ever taller buildings: Chicago's Home Insurance Building is considered to have been the world's first skyscraper. This is its story ...