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  2. Chicago Water Tower - Wikipedia

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    Description. The tower is located at 806 Michigan Avenue along the Magnificent Mile shopping district in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois in a small park, the Jane M. Byrne Plaza. The tower was constructed to house a large water pump, intended to draw water from Lake Michigan. Built in 1869, it is the second-oldest water ...

  3. Gerald Ratner Athletics Center - Wikipedia

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    Ratner Athletics Center. /  41.7941306°N 87.6018000°W  / 41.7941306; -87.6018000. The Gerald Ratner Athletics Center (colloquially, the Rat) is a $51 million athletics facility within the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois in the United States.

  4. Old Chicago Water Tower District - Wikipedia

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    April 23, 1975. Designated CL. October 6, 1971 (amended June 10, 1981) The Old Chicago Water Tower District is a historic district along the Magnificent Mile shopping district in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. The district is located on both sides of North Michigan Avenue between East Chicago and East Pearson Streets.

  5. Water tower - Wikipedia

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    Beaumont St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Water Tank (1875, restored 2012), Beaumont, Kansas, US. Although the use of elevated water storage tanks has existed since ancient times in various forms, the modern use of water towers for pressurized public water systems developed during the mid-19th century, as steam-pumping became more common, and better pipes that could handle higher pressures ...

  6. Legacy at Millennium Park - Wikipedia

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    The Legacy at Millennium Park is a 72-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, United States, located along S. Wabash Avenue, near E. Monroe Street. At 822 feet (251 meters), it is the seventeenth-tallest building in Chicago. The residential tower and mixed-use podium, designed by the architectural firm Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz, contains 360 ...

  7. Category:Water towers in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    West Water Tower and Ground Storage Tank; Western Springs Water Tower This page was last edited on 24 December 2023, at 10:23 (UTC). Text ...

  8. Highland Park Water Tower - Wikipedia

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    September 29, 1982. The Highland Park Water Tower is a historic water tower on the west side of Green Bay Road in Highland Park, Illinois. Built in 1929–30, the brick water tower is 125 feet (38 m) tall, making it the tallest structure in Highland Park. The tower is Highland Park's third water tower and serves as a visual and symbolic ...

  9. Aqua (skyscraper) - Wikipedia

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    Aqua. Aqua is an 82- story mixed-use skyscraper in Lakeshore East, downtown Chicago, Illinois. [5] Designed by a team led by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects, with James Loewenberg of Loewenberg & Associates as the Architect of Record, it includes five levels of parking below ground. The building's eighty-story, 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m 2 ...