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When the Illinois Center development was built on the east side of downtown, a new upper level was built, making most streets in that area three levels. After about 1890, special interest groups , including recreational bicyclists, farmers delivering harvested crops to market, and motorists, began to mount support for concrete paving to replace ...
A map of the 77 community areas, broken down by purported regions. While the areas have official use and definition, the color groupings are unofficial, and such "regions" may be defined differently, grouped differently, or not be used at all. The city of Chicago is divided into 77 community areas for statistical and planning purposes.
The Marina City complex was designed in 1959 by architect Bertrand Goldberg and constructed between 1961 and 1968 at a cost of $36 million, financed to a large extent by Building Service Employees International Union, a union of building janitors and elevator operators, who sought to reverse the pattern of white flight from the city's downtown area.
The Loop is Chicago's central business district and one of the city's 77 municipally recognized community areas. Located at the center of downtown Chicago [3] on the shores of Lake Michigan, it is the second-largest business district in North America after Midtown Manhattan.
A thirty-year development plan estimated to cost $4 billion was approved by Chicago in September 2010, for the former site of the US Steel plant in South Chicago, which operated along the neighborhood's shoreline from 1880 to 1992, [24] and which has undergone extensive demolition and environmental remediation since; included in the plan was an ...
Subterranean temperatures in Chicago’s downtown are likely not as high as they might be in more densely urbanized areas with bigger underground transportation systems such as London and New York ...
When you think of a relaxing, laidback and balmy place to retire, Chicago definitely doesn't come to mind. It's got a population north of 2.6 million, has infamously cold and windy winters, and a...
Chicago River is the south border (right) of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border (left) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center (viewed from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel & Tower at jog in the river in the center) The former Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal with 333 North Michigan, Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower ...