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Demolished hotels in Chicago (11 P) Pages in category "Demolished buildings and structures in Chicago" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
Demolished buildings and structures in Chicago (1 C, 72 P) H. Defunct hospitals in Chicago (8 P) ... McCarthy Building (Chicago, Illinois) McGraw–Hill Building ...
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
The Manhattan Building is a 16-story building at 431 South Dearborn Street in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney and constructed from 1889 to 1891. [ 2 ] It is the oldest surviving skyscraper in the world to use a purely skeletal supporting structure. [ 3 ]
Chicago's building height regulations enacted in 1892 (the year the Temple was built), didn't allow taller buildings, until that was amended in the 1920s. In 1939 the Masonic Temple was demolished, in part due to its poor internal services, but also due to the construction of the new State Street subway , which would have necessitated expensive ...
Part of Rotta Loria’s research involved building a 3D computer model to simulate the evolution of ground temperatures since 1951 — when Chicago completed its subway tunnels — and predict it ...
Downtown buildings are sinking. The good news is that it’s happening slowly. Tribune reporters Adriana Perez and Rebecca Johnson spoke with experts on the cause (underground climate change), the ...
Demolished 14th Place: Douglas: Near West Side: April 28, 1896 [2] December 9, 1951 [3] Demolished 17th Avenue Westchester: Maywood: October 1, 1926 [1] December 9, 1951: Demolished 18th Street: South Side Elevated: Near South Side: June 6, 1892: August 1, 1949 [4] [5] Demolished 25th Avenue: Westchester: Maywood: October 1, 1926 [1] December 9 ...