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The city of Chicago designated the structure a landmark on July 26, 2006. [1] On May 22, 2007, the building was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Chicago. [7] [8] Randolph Tower was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 2007. [5]
The K-Town Historic District is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in the North Lawndale community area in Chicago, Illinois.A mainly residential area, its borders are West Cullerton Street to the north, South Pulaski Road to the east, West Cermak Road to the south, and South Kostner Avenue to the west.
The city of Chicago is located in northern Illinois, United States, at the south western tip of Lake Michigan. It sits on the Saint Lawrence Seaway continental divide at the site of the Chicago Portage , an ancient trade route connecting the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes watersheds .
The Uptown Square Historic District is a commercial historic district encompassing parts of Broadway and Lawrence Avenue in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Primarily developed between 1900 and 1930, the district was Chicago's largest commercial and entertainment hub away from downtown in the early twentieth century.
The James R. Thompson Center (JRTC), under reconstruction as Google Center or Googleplex Chicago and originally the State of Illinois Center, is a postmodern-style building designed by architect Helmut Jahn, located at 100 W. Randolph Street in the Loop district of Chicago.
Other early high-rise buildings in the US, according to Scientific American, December 1997: the Equitable Building (1868–70), the Western Union Building (1872–75) and the Tribune Building (1873–75), all in New York City. A list of Chicago buildings from the University of Illinois-Chicago archives gives the following information about the ...
The Union Stock Yard Gate, located on Exchange Avenue at Peoria Street, was the entrance to the famous Union Stock Yards in Chicago. The gate was designed by Burnham and Root around 1875, and is the only significant structural element of the stock yards to survive. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1981. [2]
The Lincoln Park location was Chicago's oldest steel mill. [3] In 2006, it bought the site of the former Verson Steel on Chicago's South Side. [4] It was purchased by a German company in 2008, and has since operated from that location. [5] Since the demolition, there have been various proposals to connect the site to the popular Bloomingdale Trail.