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The Inland Steel Building is a skyscraper located at 30 W. Monroe Street in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the city's defining commercial high-rises of the post–World War II era of modern architecture. [1] [4] Its principal designers were Bruce Graham and Walter Netsch of the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architecture firm. [1]
Monroe opened on February 25, 1951, fourteen years after being ordered by the Chicago Rapid Transit Company in 1937. In 1969, the stairs to the northwest corner of Dearborn Street and Monroe Street were closed to allow the construction of the First National Bank Building and Plaza (renamed the Chase Tower ) after the completion of a new entry ...
The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.
In 1901, the Quaker Oats Company was founded in New Jersey with headquarters in Chicago, by the merger of four oat mills: the Quaker Mill Company in Ravenna, Ohio, which held the trademark on the Quaker name; the cereal mill in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, owned by John Stuart, his son Robert Stuart, and their partner George Douglas; the German Mills American Oatmeal Company in Akron, Ohio, owned by ...
The Monroe Street Bridge is a bascule bridge that crosses the Chicago River in ... Spanning South Branch of Chicago River at Monroe Street, Chicago, Cook County, IL, ...
When the building was constructed, it was the world's largest wholesale buying center, featuring over 1,000 display showrooms representing over 3,000 clothing lines. It was Chicago's attempt to replace New York City, where businessmen have to travel to 20 different buildings to see a comparable variety of clothing as the world's fashion center. [9]
Central Grocers Cooperative, founded in 1917 as Central Wholesale Grocers, [1] was a retailers' cooperative based in Joliet, Illinois, near Chicago.It distributed both brand name and private label goods branded as Centrella and Silver Cup Value Buy to about 400 member-owner grocery stores in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
The Story-Camp Rowhouses are a pair of identical rowhouses located at 1526–1528 W. Monroe Street in Chicago, Illinois.The rowhouses were built in 1870 by developers Matthew and George Laflin and Allen Loomis.