Hicks Architectural Group brings over 40 years of technical experience and award‑winning design to the Chicagoland community.

When you’re making a change, the right design can maximize value and unlock hidden potential.

At Hicks Architectural Group, we do more than examine and repair, we rethink and refine — designing from the ground up or adding new design to existing structures, grounded in our deep knowledge of context, construction, feasibility, and budget.

We excel at getting to the source of problems, communicating clearly, and offering pragmatic, cost-conscious solutions — drawing on 40 years of satisfying a wide range of clients.

Have a problem or project you’d like to discuss? We’d love to help.

Who We Are

An Illinois licensed architect, William Hicks is a proud co-founder of the Edgewater-Uptown Builders Association (EUBA), and longtime member of the American Arbitration Association’s (AAA) Panel of Construction Arbitrators, and the Association of Licensed Architects (ALA).

Since establishing his own practice in 1976, Bill has used his expertise to help fix, renovate, expand, and build hundreds of local projects for varied commercial and residential property managers, design-builders, homeowners associations, co-ops, and private clients.

Bill received his Bachelors of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Chicago, with an emphasis in Building Technology. He cut his teeth at Yosh Nakazawa and Associates, then led the production of construction drawings and supervised the construction of several high-rise residential towers for Gordon and Levin Architects prior to starting his own firm.

Hicks Architectural Group

Bill manages a small office of architects with numerous design awards and LEED AP credentials, who are experienced with historic preservation, technical detailing, visualizing, planning and constructing high-end and multi-unit residential, corporate, institutional, educational projects, and commercial interiors.

Our team has worked together for many years and maintains long-standing relationships with professional consultants. As a result, each project receives a continuity of personnel, communication, and quality of services throughout the work.