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The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles. Most structures downtown were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower ).
Chicago building and structure stubs (1 C, 267 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Chicago" The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total.
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
Chicago has always played a prominent role in the development of skyscrapers and three past buildings have been the tallest building in the United States. Being the inventor of the skyscraper, Chicago went through a very early high-rise construction boom that lasted from the early 1920s to the late 1930s, during which nine of the city's 100 ...
The upper stories feature arched windows capped by pediments and a pilaster supporting the cornice atop the building. The building includes a grand ballroom, banquet room, and restaurant and bar. [2] The club played an important role in Chicago's German-American community, once the largest ethnic community in Chicago. [3]
Building at 2440 N. Lakeview Avenue: November 22, 2011 : 2440 N. Lakeview Avenue [4: Lincoln Park: 18: Building at 320 West Oakdale Avenue: Building at 320 West Oakdale Avenue: April 23, 2013 : 320 W. Oakdale Avenue
Chicago [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 census, [9] it is the third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles.
Two Prudential Plaza is a 64-story skyscraper located in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.At 995 feet (303 m) tall, it is the seventh-tallest building in Chicago as of 2022 and the 28th-tallest in the U.S., being only five feet from 1,000 feet, making it the closest of any building under 1,000. [1]