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  2. List of Northwestern University buildings - Wikipedia

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    A prominent skyscraper and the largest of three buildings designed for the Chicago campus by James Gamble Rogers in the Gothic Revival-style. The Ward Memorial Building, named for the famous national department store enterprise of its namesake Chicago salesman Aaron Montgomery Ward , was the first "academic skyscraper" to ever have been ...

  3. List of tallest buildings in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Northwest Tower - Wikipedia

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    The Northwest Tower, later popularly known as the Coyote Building, [1] and Robey Hotel since 2017, [2] is a 12-story Art Deco building at the corner of North Avenue and Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. It was designed by Perkins, Chatten & Hammond and built between 1928 and 1929.

  5. List of Chicago Landmarks - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Three First National Plaza - Wikipedia

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    Completed in 1981, the building is one of the tallest in Chicago at 767 feet (234 m). The 1,439,369-square-foot (133,721.8 m 2) building was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in a sawtooth shape to minimize obstructions it might cause to nearby buildings. The design also allows for thirteen corner offices on lower floors and nine corner ...

  7. Lake Point Tower - Wikipedia

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    Lake Point Tower from St. Regis Chicago between Navy Pier and Lake Shore Drive, 2022. The architects for Lake Point Tower were John Heinrich and George Schipporeit, working under the firm name of Schipporeit and Heinrich; the two were students of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the best known architects of the Bauhaus movement and International Style school, who taught at the Illinois ...

  8. Most Endangered Historic Places List Adds Three Chicago Buildings

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  9. North Harbor Tower - Wikipedia

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    North Harbor Tower is a 556 ft (169m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, US. It was completed in 1988 and has 55 floors. Fujikawa Johnson & Associates designed the building, which is the 53rd tallest in Chicago. Each window in the building has a triangular projection to take advantage of skyline, park, lake, and river views.