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Heavy bookends—made of wood, bronze, marble, and even large geodes—have been used in libraries, stores, and homes for centuries; the simple sheetmetal bookend (originally patented in 1877 by William Stebbins Barnard) [1] uses the weight of the books standing on its foot to clamp the bookend's tall brace against the last book's back; in ...
The Berghoff restaurant, at 17 West Adams Street, near the center of the Chicago Loop, was opened in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff and has become a Chicago landmark. [1] In 1999, The Berghoff won a James Beard Foundation Award in the "America's Classics" category, which honors legendary family-owned restaurants across the country.
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.
Café Brauer was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, [1] and it received Chicago Landmark status on February 5, 2003. [ 8 ] The building is located on the site of the South Pond Refectory, a wood-frame boathouse and restaurant designed by William Le Baron Jenney which was open from 1882 until 1908. [ 2 ]
Paul and Nancy Fong prepare meals for the lunch rush at the Chicago Cafe in Woodland. The family diner, established in 1903, was recently recognized as California's oldest Chinese restaurant.
Grand Lux Cafe, an iconic Magnificent Mile establishment, will close after 21 years, according to an announcement Thursday. The restaurant’s last day of service will be on Christmas Eve ...
The Sunset Cafe, also known as The Grand Terrace Cafe or simply Grand Terrace, [1] was a jazz club in Chicago, Illinois operating during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. It was one of the most important jazz clubs in America, especially during the period between 1917 and 1928 when Chicago became a creative capital of jazz innovation and again during ...
Bookend terrace, an architectural term for a terrace of identical houses, framed at each end by a pair of enlarged houses; Framing device, an element of a story or musical composition occurring at its beginning and repeating at its end; Book end vortices, vortices that form at the ends of a large storm system or derecho