This is your local guide to the 15 best places in Chicago to shoot black and white architecture photography, with tips tailored for striking monochrome results.

I titled this photograph Where Buildings Dream because that’s exactly how the Stata Center at MIT feels to me—like a building caught in the act of dreaming.

When I first took this photo, it wasn’t solitary at all. The corridor at the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi was filled with people—tourists walking, talking, and exploring.