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  2. Former Chicago Historical Society Building - Wikipedia

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    The Former Chicago Historical Society Building is a historic landmark located at 632 N. Dearborn Street on the northwest corner of Dearborn and Ontario streets near downtown Chicago. Built in 1892, the granite -clad building is a prime example of Henry Ives Cobb 's Richardsonian Romanesque architecture . [1]

  3. Printing House Row District - Wikipedia

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    United States historic place South Dearborn Street – Printing House Row North Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark District Chicago Landmark The Manhattan Building (far right), the Fisher Building (far left), and the Old Colony Building (middle-left), three of the four buildings in the district. Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show ...

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Chicago

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    The combined area is bounded by Lake Michigan on the east, the Chicago River on the west, North Avenue (1600 N.) on the north, and 26th Street (2600 S.) on the south. This area runs 5.25 miles (8.45 km) from north to south and about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from east to west.

  5. List of Chicago Landmarks - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Wells Fargo (1852–1998) - Wikipedia

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    Wells Fargo & Company was an American banking company based in San Francisco, California, that was acquired by Norwest Corporation in 1998. During the California Gold Rush in early 1848 at Sutter's Mill near Coloma, California, financiers and entrepreneurs from all over North America and the world flocked to California, drawn by the promise of huge profits.

  7. Dearborn Street - Wikipedia

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    Dearborn Street is a street in Chicago, where it is 36 W in its grid system. It is the street immediately to the west of State Street, the city's north–south baseline. Dearborn Street appears on James Thompson's 1830 plat of Chicago, and was named for being the closest named north–south street to Fort Dearborn. [a] [1]

  8. Michigan–Wacker Historic District - Wikipedia

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    United States historic place Michigan–Wacker Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Toward the north of DuSable Bridge on Michigan Avenue Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show map of Illinois Show map of the United States Location Chicago, Illinois Coordinates 41°53′19″N 87°37′29″W  /  41.88861°N 87.62472°W  / 41.88861 ...

  9. History of Wells Fargo - Wikipedia

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    "Wells Fargo Stagecoaching in Montana Trials and Triumphs." Montana: The Magazine of Western History 29#2 (1979): 38–53. Jackson, W. Turrentine. "A New Look at Wells Fargo, Stage-Coaches and the Pony Express." California Historical Society Quarterly 45#4 (1966): 291–324. in JSTOR; Loomis, Noel M. Wells Fargo. New York: Clarkson N. Potter ...