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The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall office building in downtown Chicago.The building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921. The structure of the building was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal business, increased significantly by the mail-order businesses of Montgomery Ward (the largest retailer in the ...
The professional wrestler Colt Cabana is billed as being from "Maxwell Street in Chicago, Illinois". The Maxwell Street market of the 1960s/1970s is mentioned in the short story "Barbie-Q", by Sandra Cisneros, in her 1991 collection, Woman Hollering Creek. The story is about two Chicana girls who buy fire-damaged Barbie dolls sold at a discount ...
The supervising architect was James G. Gill. It was completed in 1880, but already occupied by 1879. [4]Federal courts meeting in this building were the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1879 to 1894), the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1879 to 1894), and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1891 ...
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The United States Postal Service (USPS) operates the main Chicago Post Office at 433 West Harrison Street in the Near West Side. [27] [28] The post office is the only 24-hour post office in the United States. [29] USPS also operates the Nancy B. Jefferson Post Office at 116 South Western Avenue. [30]
There are 74 sites in the National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side, Chicago, out of more than 350 listings in the City of Chicago.The West Side is defined for this article as the area north of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, south of Fullerton Avenue, west of the Chicago River and east of the western city limits.
On July 21, 2011, Davies announced his plans for the Twin Towers within the Old Chicago Main Post Office Redevelopment. [2] [3] Davies' plans were filed by his company, International Property Developers. [4] A previous 2,000-foot (610 m) building plan for the Chicago Spire stalled during the Great Recession. [4] The plan was approved on July 18 ...
The Romanesque style station is architecturally significant as an example of pre-1945 police stations in Chicago. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The Chicago Police Department vacated the station in 1998.