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The tz database partitions the world into regions where local clocks all show the same time. This map was made by combining version 2023d with OpenStreetMap data, using open source software. [1] This is a list of time zones from release 2025a of the tz database. [2] Bond
Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago was created as the result of a 1964 meeting of 30 critics, collectors and dealers at the home of critic Doris Lane Butler to bring the long-discussed idea of a museum of contemporary art to complement the city's Art Institute of Chicago, according to a grand opening story in Time. [4]
Chicago Park District: More images: Statue of Alexander von Humboldt: Humboldt Park: 1892 () Felix Görling Sculpture: Bronze: Chicago Park District: Bronze Cow Statue: Chicago Cultural Center: 2001 () Peter Hanig: Sculpture: Bronze: Height: 4.5 feet (1.4 m) Length: 8 feet (2.4 m) [2] Buckingham Fountain: Grant Park
Even old blue jeans can have collector's value, if you have the right pair. Levi's 501 jeans were first introduced in 1954, and a mint-condition pair of those first-edition 501 jeans can sell for ...
The building was the largest in the world in terms of floorspace, but was surpassed by the Pentagon in 1943, [28] and now stands forty-fourth on the list of largest buildings in the world. Once the largest commercial space in the world, New Century Global Center in China is now recognized by Guinness World Records as holding the record. [29]
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