Jickie Torres

This landmark 1948 home’s renovation features many delightful additions—including a tiki room room dubbed the Chi-Chi Lounge. If you’re lucky enough to live in a quintessential Mid Century Modern home, then you already know how special it is. But when your home has been honored as a landmark by the local historical association and featured in books and documentary films, then you have even more reason to have pride in it.

Mid-Century Made Modern: Modernous Respectfully Updates the Finishes of This 1970s Pacific Northwest Home - Atomic Ranch

Chicago Modernism Weekend is back — and this year it’s bigger, deeper, and more expansive than ever. Whether you’re a lifelong architecture enthusiast or just curious about what’s hiding behind the doors of the North Shore’s most extraordinary midcentury homes, here’s everything you need to know before you go.