The river cruise is ranked in the top ten tours in the U.S. by TripAdvisor users.

It was renamed the Chicago Architecture Foundation in 1979, and CAF later moved into the Railway Exchange Building on Michigan Avenue in 1992 with an expanded book store and program space.

[5] Changing its name to the Chicago Architecture Center, it moved to a newly expanded space in Mies van der Rohe's One Illinois Center at 111 E. Wacker Dr. on the Chicago River in August 2018.

The CAC also hosts the largest annual architecture event in the city, Open House Chicago.

Held over a weekend in October, Open House Chicago attracts tens of thousands of participants from around the world.