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  2. National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicago

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    The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...

  3. Navy Pier - Wikipedia

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    The halls were used to represent Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the 1986 movie The Color of Money for the 9-Ball Championship. [41] In both Raw Deal and Cooley High, the pier was used as a location for car chases. The fourth season finale of T. J. Hooker, titled "The Chicago Connection", featured a scene in front of the then-abandoned pier.

  4. Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    The mayor's office map extends the Gold Coast south to the area of Northwestern University's Chicago campus. As of 2011, Gold Coast ranks as the seventh-richest urban neighborhood in the United States with a median household income of $153,358. [5]

  5. List of beaches in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Oak Street Beach, located at 1000 North, [9] covers the area from the North Avenue 'Hook' Pier south to Ohio Street Beach (Illinois St. Beach, Olive Beach), about 1.5 mi (2 km). Oak Street is home to the largest area of deep water swimming in the city (1/2 mile (800 m) over 10 ft (3 m)).

  6. South Shore, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The South Shore Bungalow Historic District is a residential historic district in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district contains 229 Chicago bungalows and twenty other residential buildings built between 1911 and 1930. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 10, 2008. [11]

  7. Edgewater Beach Hotel - Wikipedia

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    This roadway was built on landfill in the area that had been the private beach for the hotel. While new public beaches serving the Edgewater neighborhood were eventually created, they did not replace the hotel's own beach. After the hotel was cut-off from the lake by the new drive, a swimming pool was added in 1953.

  8. Looking for fun things to do this weekend Feb. 23-25? Top 5 ...

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    Plus, we've curated a list of the best things to do all year in the county, and here it is: your bucket list of 55 fun must-try things to do in Palm Beach County. 1. Lake Worth Beach Street ...

  9. Riverview Park (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Riverview Park was an amusement park in Chicago, Illinois, which operated from 1904 to 1967.It was located on 74 acres (30 hectares) bound on the south by Belmont Avenue, on the east by Western Avenue, on the north by Lane Tech College Prep High School, and on the west by the North Branch of the Chicago River. [2]