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The buildings and architecture of Chicago reflect the city's history and multicultural heritage, featuring prominent buildings in a variety of styles. Most structures downtown were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower ).
2006-06-07 840x1500 Chicago aon building: 1,136 (346) 83 1973 12th-tallest building in the U.S.; formerly known as the Standard Oil Building. Was the tallest building in Chicago before being surpassed by the Willis Tower. [15] [16] 5 875 North Michigan Avenue
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 ...
The system would prove highly influential in skyscraper construction and has been used in most supertall buildings since, including the world's current tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. [ 155 ] [ 156 ] In February 1982, two television antennas were added to the structure, increasing its total height to 1,707 feet (520.3 m).
The John Hancock Center is a 100-story, 1,128-foot [7] supertall skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois.Located in the Magnificent Mile district, the building was officially renamed 875 North Michigan Avenue in 2018.
The Monadnock was commissioned by Boston real estate developers Peter and Shepherd Brooks in the building boom following the Depression of 1873–79. [5] The Brooks family, which had amassed a fortune in the shipping insurance business and had been investing in Chicago real estate since 1863, had retained Chicago property manager Owen F. Aldis to manage the construction of the seven-story ...
World's fair architecture in Chicago (8 P) Σ. Chicago building and structure stubs (1 C, 267 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Chicago"
The Chicago school of architecture: a history of commercial and public building in the Chicago area, 1875-1925. University of Chicago Press, 1973. Leslie, Thomas. Chicago Skyscrapers, 1871-1934. University of Illinois Press, 2013.