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The Chicago Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois was constructed between 1898 and 1905 for the purpose of housing the Midwest's federal courts, main post office, and other government bureaus. It stood in The Loop neighborhood on a block bounded by Dearborn , Adams and Clark Streets and Jackson Boulevard .
The supervising architect was James G. Gill. It was completed in 1880, but already occupied by 1879. [4]Federal courts meeting in this building were the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1879 to 1894), the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois (1879 to 1894), and the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1891 ...
This is one of three buildings by van der Rohe in the Federal Center Plaza complex: the others are the Loop Station Post Office and the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse. The John C. Kluczynski Building is constructed of a steel frame and contains 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m 2) of space. The exterior is sheathed in bronze-tinted ...
The site for the new Federal Center included the block occupied by the Beaux-Arts style U.S. Post Office and Courthouse (1898–1905) designed by Henry Ives Cobb, which replaced an 1879 government building in the same location. It was in Cobb's domed building where Al Capone was tried for tax evasion in 1931.
Razed in 1896; replaced by Chicago Federal Building at same site. [2] [3] n/a U.S. Appellate Court Bldg: Chicago: 1212 N. Lake Shore Drive: 7th Cir. 1938–1965 Fate of building unknown. n/a Chicago Federal Building: Chicago: 218 S. Dearborn Street: N.D. Ill. 1905–1965 Structure replaced by the Kluczynski Federal Building; court relocated. n/a
The first U.S. Federal building authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1807, with an appropriation of $20,000 to build, in New Orleans, a post office, courthouse, or custom house. [ 3 ] Historically, the authorization and construction of the first federally-funded building in a small town often has been a major event.
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The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall office building in downtown Chicago.The building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921. The structure of the building was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal business, increased significantly by the mail-order businesses of Montgomery Ward (the largest retailer in the ...