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2. Open House Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Open House Chicago logo. Open House Chicago (OHC) is a free weekend festival held annually in Chicago that allows participants to visit dozens of buildings that are not typically open to the public. OHC is organized by the Chicago Architecture Foundation over a two-day period each year in mid-October. The event promotes appreciation of ...

3. Chicago Architecture Center - Wikipedia

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   The CAC also hosts the largest annual architecture event in the city, Open House Chicago. This free, annual event gives the public access to buildings and spaces around the city that are typically closed to the public. Held over a weekend in October, Open House Chicago attracts tens of thousands of participants from around the world. [8]

4. Tribune Tower - Wikipedia

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   Tribune Tower has participated in Chicago Architecture Foundation's event Open House Chicago every year, starting in 2011. This annual opportunity allows visitors to tour the interior of the building for free. [12] [13] [14]

5. Richard J. Daley Center - Wikipedia

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   The Richard J. Daley Center, also known by its open courtyard Daley Plaza and named after longtime mayor Richard J. Daley, is the premier civic center of the City of Chicago in Illinois. The Center's modernist skyscraper primarily houses offices and courtrooms for the Cook County Circuit Courts , Cook County State's Attorney and additional ...

6. Avalon Regal Theater - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago Regal Foundation was created to raise funds to reopen and operate the Avalon Regal Theater, and offers tours of the building during the Chicago Architecture Foundation's annual Open House Chicago. [15] [16] [17]

7. Chicago Architecture Biennial - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago Architecture Biennial is an international exhibition of architectural ideas, projects and displays. It seeks "to provide a platform for groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments that demonstrate how creativity and innovation can radically transform our lived experience."

8. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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   The Chicago Building is an example of Chicago School architecture.. Beginning in the early 1880s, architectural pioneers of the Chicago School explored steel-frame construction and, in the 1890s, the use of large areas of plate glass.

9. Kluczynski Federal Building - Wikipedia

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   It is 562 feet (171 m) tall and with the Mies designed post office and plaza stands on the site previously occupied by the Chicago Federal Building by the architect Henry Ives Cobb. It was named in honor of U.S. Congressman John C. Kluczynski , who represented Illinois's 5th congressional district from 1951 to 1975 after his death that year. [ 1 ]