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2. Col. Ira C. Copley Mansion - Wikipedia

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   Ira C. Copley's mansion was designed in 1906 by Jarvis Hunt, an architect from Chicago and finally completed in 1917. It is predominantly of Classical Revival design, but has many Federal Style features. The mansion is three stories tall and shaped like an "L".

3. Middle Avenue Historic District - Wikipedia

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   The district includes eleven buildings, eight of which are contributing buildings to its historic nature. The district formed in the early 20th century along a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad branch known as the Alley Job, and its buildings fall into three main categories: factories, distribution buildings, and warehouses. The district ...

4. National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side ...

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   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 ...

5. West Side Historic District (Aurora, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad relocated its headquarters to Aurora in 1855. Expecting a rise in population due to the railroad's employment opportunities, Aurora platted a new residential section of land west of the Fox River. Aurora indeed expanded rapidly during that period, almost doubling in population from 1860 to 1874.

6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicago

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   Fully 55 are located in the downtown Loop area, including the Loop Retail Historic District itself. Chicago is a historic and continuing world port city due to its location on the Great Lakes, which has an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway.

7. National Register of Historic Places listings in Evanston ...

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   1702 Chicago Ave. 42°02′53″N 87°40′45″W  /  42.048136°N 87.679063°W  / 42.048136; -87.679063  ( Woman's Club of Wikimedia Commons has media related to National Register of Historic Places in Evanston, Illinois .