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The Four Nineteen Building is a historic gas station building located at 419 E. 83rd St. in the Chatham community area of Chicago, Illinois. The station was built in 1928 by William D. Meyering and David L. Sutton, two local real estate businessmen. The station is an example of the Domestic style of gas station architecture, in which stations ...
The Spring–Douglas Historic District is a set of 496 buildings in Elgin, Illinois. Of those, 455 buildings contribute to the district's historical value. It is a residential district following Spring Street and Douglas Avenue from Kimball Street in the south to River Bluff Road to the north.
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.
Preservation Chicago’s annual list of the seven most endangered buildings is so big that this year it includes eight historic sites. Topping the list, issued Wednesday, is an urgent late ...
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
This 83-year-old Chicago senior has lived in South Shore for 50 years — now she keeps getting offers to buy her home ‘as is.’ ... which is expected to open in the spring of 2026. This high ...
Frost & Granger was an American architectural partnership from 1898 to 1910 of brothers-in-law Charles Sumner Frost (1856–1931) and Alfred Hoyt Granger (1867–1939). Frost and Granger were known for their designs of train stations and terminals, including the now-demolished Chicago and North Western Terminal, in Chicago.
Harris Bank Addition II is a 510 ft (160 m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States.It was completed in 1974 and has 38 floors. Skidmore, Owings and Merrill designed the building in the International style which is the 83rd tallest in Chicago and has 592,000 sq ft (55,000 m 2) of floor space.