SPLURGE A true architecture buff has probably seen Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House, home and studio at least a half-dozen times, but she’s less likely to have glimpsed the inside of the eight private Oak Park homes featured in the 35th annual Wright Plus housewalk on May 16. $95, $80 Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust members; wrightplus.org.
BUDGET No matter how many times he’s strolled through town with his gaze directed toward the skyline, Chicago’s architecture only gets better when it comes with an engaging tour guide. Treat him to a ticket to the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Mies & Modernism: The IIT Campus Tour, so he can check out the world’s largest collection of Mies van der Rohe buildings, along with more recent masterpieces designed by Rem Koolhaas and Helmut Jahn. $10.