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Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
The building functioned as the Centro del Arte (Art Centre) from 1986 until established as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 1988. In 1988, portions of the new museum were opened to the public, mostly in temporary configurations; that same year it was decreed by the Ministry of Culture as a national museum.
Included also are numerous religious buildings, 15 hotels, [3] and six theaters. [4] Fully 55 are located in the downtown Loop area, including the Loop Retail Historic District itself. Chicago is a historic and continuing world port city due to its location on the Great Lakes, which has an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway.
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 ...
Chicago building and structure stubs (1 C, 267 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Chicago" The following 119 pages are in this category, out of 119 total.
A boundary increase on July 24, 2017, added two buildings at 330 S. Wells Street and 212 W. Van Buren Street to the district. [ 2 ] The district encompasses Chicago's financial center, which is anchored by the Chicago Board of Trade Building , and also includes several of its major banking institutions including the Federal Reserve bank and ...
Chicago Federation of Musicians Building, West Loop–LaSalle Street Historic District, Chicago, 1933, 1949 Chicago Vocational High School , Chicago, 1941 Civic Opera House , Chicago, 1929
1902 Marshall Field and Company Building, north State Street building D.H. Burnham & Company, Charles B. Atwood; 1903 Holy Trinity Cathedral, Chicago; 1905-1906 Holy Trinity Polish Mission, Herman Olszewski and William G. Krieg, 1905 Chicago Federal Building, Henry Ives Cobb; 1906 Sears Merchandise Building Tower, George G. Nimmons - William K ...