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Downtown Chicago, Illinois, has some double-decked and a few triple-decked streets immediately north and south of the Main Branch and immediately east of the South Branch of the Chicago River. The most famous and longest of these is Wacker Drive, which replaced the South Water Street Market upon its 1926 completion. [1]
There are 105 sites on the National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago — of more than 350 total listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois. The South Side district is defined for this article as the area west of Lake Michigan , and south of 26th Street and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal , to the ...
At 961 feet (293 m) tall, it is the ninth-tallest building in Chicago and the 36th tallest in the United States. It was once the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world. 311 South Wacker was also the tallest building in the world known only by its street address, until it was surpassed in height by New York's 432 Park Avenue in 2015.
A rare double emergence of cicadas is coming to Illinois in a few short weeks and one Chicago-area bakery has a unique way of celebrating. Chicago-area bakery brings back Cicada Cakes after 17 ...
Cable cars in Chicago; Carl Street Studios; Centennial Fountain; Center on Halsted; Century Building (Chicago) Chicago Assembly Plant; Chicago Bus Station; Chicago Center for Green Technology; Chicago Cultural Center; Chicago Defender Building; Chicago Lakeside Development; Chicago Lawn Branch; Chicago Music Exchange; Chicago Picasso; Chicago ...
The Wrigley Building is a skyscraper located at 400–410 North Michigan Avenue on Chicago's Near North Side. It is located on the Magnificent Mile directly across Michigan Avenue from the Tribune Tower. Its two towers in an elaborate style were built between 1920 and 1924 to house the corporate headquarters of the Wrigley Company.
The structure was significant as the first new downtown skyscraper constructed in Chicago since the Field Building, 21 years earlier and was built on air rights over the Illinois Central Railroad. [2] It was the last building ever connected to the Chicago Tunnel Company's tunnel network.
The United States Customs House is a custom house at 610 S. Canal Street in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.The building opened in 1933 to meet the city's need for a larger custom house, especially with the large Chicago Main Post Office opening nearby.