Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Logan Square is named after General John A. Logan, an American soldier and political leader.The square itself is a large public green space (designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney, landscape architect Jens Jensen and others) formed as the grand northwest terminus of the Chicago Boulevard System and the junction of Kedzie and Logan Boulevards and Milwaukee Avenue.
Illinois Centennial Memorial Column, Logan Square Monument or Illinois Centennial Monument is a public monument in the Logan Square community area and the Chicago Landmark and National Register of Historic Places -listed Logan Square Boulevards Historic District. [1][2] Built in 1918 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Illinois ' statehood ...
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.
The Logan Square Boulevards Historic District is a linear historic district in the Logan Square community area of North Side, Chicago. It encompasses 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of the Chicago boulevard system. The district includes sections of Logan Boulevard, Kedzie Avenue, and Humboldt Boulevard. It also includes two parks, Logan Square and Palmer ...
On May 16, 2009, the Art Institute opened the Modern Wing, the largest expansion in the museum's history. [46] The 264,000-square-foot (24,500 m 2) addition, designed by Renzo Piano, makes the Art Institute the second-largest museum in the US. [2] The architect of record in the City of Chicago for this building was Interactive Design. [47]
Location. Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Coordinates. 41°52′14″N 87°37′24″W / 41.87066°N 87.62344°W / 41.87066; -87.62344. General John Logan Memorial, also known as the John Alexander Logan Monument, [1] is an outdoor bronze sculpture commemorating John A. Logan by sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and ...
1100 South/1200 South at Roosevelt Road. The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets ...
January 30, 1978 [1] The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street. The Gold Coast neighborhood grew in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire. In 1882, millionaire Potter Palmer ...