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The building opened in May 1985 as the State of Illinois Center. It was renamed in 1993 to honor former Illinois Governor James R. Thompson . The property occupies the entire block bound by Randolph , Lake , Clark and LaSalle Streets , one of the 35 full-size city blocks within Chicago's Loop .
The Virginia Monument, [1] also commonly referred to as "The State of Virginia Monument", is a Battle of Gettysburg memorial to the commonwealth's "Sons at Gettysburg" with a bronze statue of Robert E. Lee on his horse Traveller and a "bronze group of figures representing the Artillery, Infantry, and Cavalry of the Confederate Army".
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
The sign theme continued in 1957, when the Nov. 19 edition of the Evening Sun reported that vandals stole a large sign providing a key to the figures of the Virginia Monument.
Cook: Central Chicago: 123 16.2 Cook: North Side Chicago: 99 16.3 Cook: South Side Chicago: 105 16.4 Cook: West Side Chicago: 76 16.5 Cook: Evanston: 62 16.6 Cook: Other: 137 Cook: Duplicates (4) [2] Cook: Total 598 17 Crawford: 7 18 Cumberland: 3 19 DeKalb: 17 20 DeWitt: 2 21 Douglas: 3 22 DuPage: 48 23 Edgar: 9 24 Edwards: 1 25 Effingham: 3 ...
Chicago’s first national monument marks the site where Pullman passenger railroad cars were built; Employees lived nearby in the neighborhood on the city’s South Side Side. The sprawling ...
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The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum located on campus, houses a large collection of memorabilia relating to the school's namesake. The Lincoln Memorial Shrine was built in 1932 in Redlands, California. Has an original Lincoln bust by George Grey Barnard. Only museum and research center to Lincoln west of the Mississippi River. [19]