Chicago Industrial Arts & Design Center

Built in 1911 with innovative tilt-up concrete construction, this makerspace was an early home of Zenith Electric, known as Chicago Radio Laboratory before it became a global industrial powerhouse. The facility’s history and heft is a perfect match for the work that has gone on here since CIADC opened in 2015. Equipment, workshops and work spaces are offered in casting and molding, metalworking and forging, technology and design and woodworking, with each department given its own floor. CIADC’s goal is to remove the obstacles most people face when creating 3D objects with permanent materials and industrial processes.