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The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000. [7] In later years, Montgomery Ward and Company added several warehouses and parking structures, followed by a 26-story office building in 1972, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the former World Trade Center towers in New York City. [4] [5]
Before the Chicago Fire, the area directly along the river was predominantly commercial warehouses. In April 1879, one such warehouse was constructed at the northwest corner of Adams Street and Franklin Street on the site of today's 300 West Adams. Originally it was built for the Armour-Dole Grain Company.
The Chicago Police Department's Homan Square facility is a former Sears, Roebuck and Company warehouse on the city's West Side.The facility houses the department's Evidence and Recovered Property Section.
The name "The 78" refers to the existing 77 community areas in Chicago and the mega-development is to increase that number by one. [2] Related Midwest will develop the site, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill designed the project's master plan. [2] Related Midwest acquired the land in 2016. [3] [4]
ABLA Homes (Jane Addams Homes, Robert Brooks Homes, Loomis Courts, and Grace Abbott Homes) was a Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) public housing development that comprised four separate public housing projects on the Near-West Side of Chicago, Illinois. The name "ABLA" was an acronym for the names of the four different housing developments that ...
A. Finkl & Sons Steel operated a mill along a roughly 22-acre lot along the eastern portion of the Chicago River in the Lincoln Park neighborhood from 1902 until it was demolished in 2012. [2] The Lincoln Park location was Chicago's oldest steel mill. [3] In 2006, it bought the site of the former Verson Steel on Chicago's South Side. [4]
Lagrange is a French-born architect who came to Chicago in 1978 after studying at McGill University and who rose to prominence while working for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill after having been a 1950s high school dropout. [6] Among the 21st century projects that the firm has completed are The Pinnacle and Park Tower.
The Reebie Storage Warehouse was built for the Reebie Storage and Moving Co. in Chicago, Illinois, in 1922. Located at 2325 North Clark Street #300 in the Lincoln Park neighborhood , it is a widely recognized example of Egyptian Revival architecture .