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  2. Richard Nickel - Wikipedia

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    Richard Stanley Nickel (May 31, 1928 – April 13, 1972) was a Polish American architectural photographer and historical preservationist, who was based in Chicago, Illinois. He is best known for his efforts to preserve and document the buildings of architect Louis Sullivan , and the work of the architecture firm of Adler & Sullivan.

  3. List of museums in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Northern Illinois: Local history: Homepage: Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design: Galena: Jo Daviess: Northern Illinois: Art: Art of design in all areas of the discipline: architecture, industrial and product design, graphics and urban planning: Chicago Athenaeum's International Sculpture Park: Schaumburg: Cook: Chicago area: Art

  4. Chicago History Museum - Wikipedia

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    Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.

  5. List of museums and cultural institutions in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    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;

  6. Pilsen Historic District - Wikipedia

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    The Pilsen Historic District is a historic district located in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. Pilsen is a neighborhood made up of the residential sections of the Lower West Side community area of Chicago. It is recognized as one of the few neighborhoods in Chicago that still has buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [2]

  7. National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicago

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    The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...

  8. Chicago sues gunmaker Glock over conversions to machine guns

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    The city of Chicago sued Glock Inc. on Tuesday, alleging the handgun manufacturer is facilitating the proliferation of illegal machine guns that can fire as many as 1,200 rounds per minute on the ...

  9. Saint Valentine's Day Massacre - Wikipedia

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    It is possible that he used this same gun in Detroit's Milaflores Massacre on March 28, 1927. Chicago sporting goods owner Peter von Frantzius sold gun number 7580 to a Victor Thompson, also known as Frank V. Thompson, but it wound up with James "Bozo" Shupe, a small-time hood from Chicago's West Side who had ties to various members of Capone's ...