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The Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building or Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store, [4] is a commercial building at 1 South State Street at the corner of East Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois.
The Sullivan Athletic Center is an athletic facility on the campus of DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. The facility houses McGrath-Phillips Arena, a 3,000-seat multi-purpose arena. It is the home arena for the women's volleyball team and part-time home for the women's basketball team.
John Sullivan (born August 8, 1985) is an American former professional football center. He played college football at Notre Dame and was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the sixth round of the 2008 NFL draft , later playing for the Washington Redskins and Los Angeles Rams .
2009, the Sullivan Center installed a new gym floor. 2017, a brand new four-sided, hanging scoreboard was installed. 2021, the gym floor was replaced and upgraded for a third different court since its inception. 2022, the Sullivan Center underwent a complete remodel as new state-of-the-art bleachers were installed, along with another new court.
Sullivan is located on an 850-acre (3.4 km 2) stretch of land that also contains Woodbourne Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison. The state appropriated funding for Sullivan after the loss of Rikers Island as a state facility in 1980 (the facility was returned to New York City).
The ornamental flourishes at the top of Sullivan's façade were pushed upwards when four stories were added in 1902 by different architects. This is one of only five buildings in Chicago designed by Louis Sullivan as a solo architect that are still standing. The two smaller buildings to the south are also part of the Gage Group Buildings.
Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) [1] was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" [2] and "father of modernism." [3] He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.
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