Architecture blog The Man on Five has stumbled upon a series of stunning black and white shots of the original UIC campus, designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill legend Walter Netsch, whose idiosyncratic layout composed of concrete, granite and brick earned the campus the name "Fortress Illini." Eventually demolished in the mid-1990s, the angular campus core exemplified his geometric style, also expressed in the famous Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. [The Man on Five]
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