In 1988, Mansueto married Rika Yoshida, and the two pledged $25 million for the expansion of the University of Chicago library in 2008. Mansueto was included on the Forbes World's Billionaires ...

Best University Libraries According to Times Higher Education and Architectural Digest, University of Chicago’s The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library and University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library are both ...

Podcaster Show PlayerJahn, who designed the University of Chicago's Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, the James R. Thompson Center, One South Wacker Chicago, the Xerox Center and the Chicago Board of ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The newest residential skyscraper in the downtown Chicago area officially opened Thursday. The tower 1000M is located at 1000 S. Michigan Ave. in the South Loop, on the western ...

University of Chicago Police said at 11:16 p.m. Monday, a robber exited a silver Nissan sport-utility vehicle with a gun in hand, and came up to a staff member in a car parked on the street at ...

For two years of my time as a student at the University of Chicago, my dorm building, my cafeteria, and the library where I worked all stood on the same block as the site of the world's first-ever ...

We have at least five and they all have their distinct cultures. Mansueto (Joe and Rika Mansueto Library) is the Divergent one, the dome. That one’s pretty intense, it’s no noise at all.

Alums Joe Mansueto (A.B. ’78, M.B.A. ’80) and his wife, Rika (A.B. ’91), the library’s namesakes and chief financiers, reflected on the periodically uncertain vision behind the library. “It was not a ...

Chicago earned its nickname "hog butcher for the world" thanks to the acres of livestock pens and slaughterhouses that could be found beyond the Union Stock Yards gate from 1865 to 1971. Hundreds ...

Back in Mansueto, former University of Chicago professor Marta Ptaszynska’s “Spider Walk” (1993) required Corkill to dance all over its polyglot instrumentation — five tom-toms, one muted ...

The Michigan City Public Library is mourning the death of the world-renowned German-American architect Helmut Jahn, who died at the age of 81 in a bicycle crash in Illinois over ...

My favorite Jahn building is the Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago, its glass-domed reading room outfitted with a working air conditioning system and the actual books tucked away in ...