First United Methodist Church of Chicago

This guide to First United Methodist Church of Chicago climbs 173 steps to the Sky Chapel, the tiny worship space tucked under the building's spire above the Loop. It traces the room back to a 1952 gift from Myrtle Walgreen in memory of her husband Charles, and to the congregation's roots in 1831, decades before the Great Chicago Fire. Couples now book the chapel for weddings, reached only by elevator and that same long climb.