CHICAGO — In a big city known for big ideas on architecture, it’s sometimes the smaller ideas that can help reinvent.

The latest exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Center gives us the voice to renew, rewild, reconnect and reside in the Chicago of the future.

Eleanor Gorski from the Chicago Architecture Center says the exhibit allows the public to give their opinion and a voice in decision making in what is happening downtown.

“This is our city, people need to have a say in it,” Gorski said.

This is the opening for the “Loop as Lab’ exhibit which takes a look at all the latest proposals from planners and architects for downtown Chicago and puts them into one place.

“So that the public can see them give their opinion and really have a voice in decision making in what’s happening downtown,” Gorski said.

Since the great Chicago Fire more than 150 years ago, Chicago is seen as a leader in new concepts in architecture and urban growth.

“Think of the hotel boom that we just had and the late 2000s when a lot of our office spaces were converted into hotels,” Gorski said.

The exhibit takes into account the latest ideas like the newly unveiled Bears stadium plan.

“We have ballot on “would you want to live downtown? And if you would, how should we pay for this?”

Decisions to reshape one of America’s greatest cities as it looks past a pandemic and into a new future.