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  2. Montgomery Ward Company Complex - Wikipedia

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    The Catalog House was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 17, 2000. [7] In later years, Montgomery Ward and Company added several warehouses and parking structures, followed by a 26-story office building in 1972, designed by architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the former World Trade Center towers in New York City. [4] [5]

  3. List of Chicago placename etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Refers to the sparrows who fed in the stockyards and railroad cars in the late 19th century. The name may also refer to youth gangs in the neighborhood, who were known as "wild canaries". [9] Central Park Avenue: Refers to the original name of Garfield Park. Cermak Road: Slain Chicago mayor Anton Cermak (formerly 22nd Street) Chicago River

  4. Russian monitor Novgorod - Wikipedia

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    These guns had a range of 3,038 yards (2,778 m) and a rate of fire of 32 rounds per minute. By the following year her hull and machinery were in poor condition. The ship was turned over to the Port Authority of Nikolaev for disposal on 1 May 1903 and stricken from the navy list on 3 July, after which she was used as a storeship.

  5. This Woodland Chinese restaurant is said to be the oldest in ...

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    The dive on Woodland’s Main Street may be the United States ... though owners Paul and Nancy Fong give a date of 1903. Either way, Chicago Cafe is now believed to ... Address: 2319 K St., Suite ...

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in North Side ...

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    There are 99 sites in the National Register of Historic Places listings in North Side Chicago — of ... May 17, 1984 : 2433 N. Lincoln ... N. Leavitt Street & the ...

  7. 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 ...

  8. Edwin H. Cheney House - Wikipedia

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    Built in 1903, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for electrical engineer Edwin Cheney. [2] The house is part of the Frank Lloyd Wright–Prairie School of Architecture Historic District . [ 3 ] A brick house with the living and sleeping rooms all on one floor under a single hipped roof, the Cheney House has a less monumental and more ...

  9. N. K. Fairbank - Wikipedia

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    Nathaniel Kellogg "N.K." Fairbank (1829–1903) was a Chicago industrialist whose company, the N.K. Fairbank Co., manufactured soap as well as animal and baking products in conjunction with the major meat packing houses of northern Illinois.