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In addition to being a home for several different owners, the house has also served as a funeral home and as the headquarters of the Chicago Urban League. [2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978. [1] On December 3, 2023, the building was severely damaged in a fire. [3] [4]
The Noble–Seymour–Crippen House is a mansion located at 5624 North Newark Avenue in Chicago's Norwood Park community area. Its southern wing, built in 1833, is widely considered the oldest existing building in Chicago. [2] As well as the 22nd oldest in the state of Illinois.
The Italian Renaissance-style mansion was commissioned by Joseph Theurer, then-owner of the Schoenhofen Brewing Company, and purchased in 1911 by Chicago's Wrigley family. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, the house was built in 1896 by Richard Schmidt and, possibly, Hugh M.G. Garden, two architects later prominent in ...
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.
The John W. Griffiths Mansion is a historic house at 3806 S. Michigan Avenue in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois. The house was built in 1893-94 for John W. Griffiths, a prominent building contractor who worked in Chicago during its reconstruction after the Great Chicago Fire .
The Hegeler Carus Mansion, located at 1307 Seventh Street in La Salle, Illinois is one of the Midwest's great Second Empire structures. Completed in 1876 for Edward C. Hegeler , a partner in the nearby Matthiessen Hegeler Zinc Company , the mansion was designed in 1874 by noted Chicago architect William W. Boyington .
There are roughly 68,000 homeless people in Chicago on any given night. CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago voters have rejected a one-time real estate tax on properties over $1 million to pay for services ...
The rear façade of Mayslake Hall. The Mayslake Peabody Estate is an estate constructed as a country home for Francis Stuyvesant Peabody between 1919 and 1922. [3] The estate is located in the western Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, and is now part of the Mayslake Forest Preserve administered by the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County.