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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 Chicago Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois was constructed between 1898 and 1905 for the purpose of housing the Midwest's federal courts, main post office, and other government bureaus. It stood in The Loop neighborhood on a block bounded by Dearborn , Adams and Clark Streets and Jackson Boulevard .
This is one of three buildings by van der Rohe in the Federal Center Plaza complex: the others are the Loop Station Post Office and the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse. The John C. Kluczynski Building is constructed of a steel frame and contains 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m 2) of space. The exterior is sheathed in bronze-tinted ...
Tenants occupied the new U.S. Courthouse, the first of the complex's three buildings to be completed, in 1964. The government began demolition of the old post office in 1965 to clear the site for the two remaining buildings. The Loop Station Post Office and new Federal Building were completed in 1973 and 1974 respectively.
Dearborn Street is a street in Chicago, where it is 36 W in its grid system. It is the street immediately to the west of State Street , the city's north–south baseline. Dearborn Street appears on James Thompson 's 1830 plat of Chicago, and was named for being the closest named north–south street to Fort Dearborn .
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 ...
Dearborn Station (also called, Polk Street Depot) was, beginning in the late 1800s, one of six intercity train stations serving downtown Chicago, Illinois. It remained in operation until May 1, 1971. It remained in operation until May 1, 1971.
The Boyce Building is a twelve-story office building clad in light gray Vermont granite and red brick. The steel-framed structure is on the northwest corner of Dearborn and Illinois Streets on Chicago's Near North Side. It was built in three phases from 1911 to 1923. Boyce commissioned Daniel H. Burnham & Co. to design the building in 1911 ...