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Union Station (Chicago), 225 South Canal Street, 1913-25 (begun as Graham, Burnham & Co.) [2] Kimball Building (a.k.a. DePaul University Lewis Center), 1917; Wrigley Building, 1919–1925; Union Trust Building of Cleveland (925 Building), 1920; Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Building (925 Grand), 1921 [1] Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago ...
Chicago Union Station is situated in the West Loop Gate neighborhood of the Near West Side of Chicago, just west of Chicago's Loop. The station's underground concourse and train sheds abut the Chicago River ; passageways extend west beneath Canal Street to the main station building, one block over.
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 ...
Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop. [2] The vast majority of the street is double-decked ; the upper level is intended for regular street-level traffic, and the lower level for service vehicles ...
The Canal Street railroad bridge (or Pennsylvania Railroad bridge) is a vertical-lift bridge across the south branch of the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on December 12, 2007.
The BMO Tower, also known as 320 South Canal, [1] is a 51-story, 727 feet (222 m) skyscraper in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, and sits directly south of the Union Station rail terminal. [2] When completed, it became the 24th-tallest building in Chicago, and the tallest to the west of Canal Street. [3]
The Franklin Center is a 60-story supertall skyscraper in the Loop neighborhood of downtown Chicago.Completed in 1989 as the AT&T Corporate Center to consolidate the central region headquarters of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), [2] it stands at a height of 1,007 ft (307 m) and contains 1.7 million sq ft (160,000 m 2) of floor space. [3]
Canal was a rapid transit station located on the Metropolitan main line of the Chicago "L" that was in service from 1895 to 1958, when the entire main line was replaced by the Congress Line located in the median of the nearby Eisenhower Expressway.