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  2. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The apartments typically have the same layout with a large living and dining room area at the front, the kitchen at the back and the bedrooms running down one side of the unit. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Illinois Institute of Technology [11] campus in Chicago influenced the later Modern or International style. Van der Rohe's work is sometimes ...

  3. List of National Historic Landmarks in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    CHICAGO NHLS: Abbott House Adler Planetarium Auditorium Building Carson, Pirie, Scott Building Charnley House Chicago Board of Trade Building Columbus Park Compton House De Priest House Du Sable Homesite Glessner House Gerber House Haymarket Martyrs' Monument Heller House Hull House Kennicott Grove Leiter II Building Lillie House

  4. 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 ...

  5. Jean Baptiste Point du Sable - Wikipedia

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    Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]

  6. Fountain of Time - Wikipedia

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    Time is in the Chicago Park District, in the Washington Park community area on Chicago's South Side, near the Midway Plaisance. This location, adjoining the University of Chicago campus directly to the East, [ 4 ] makes the sculpture a contributing structure to the Washington Park federal Registered Historic District , listed on the National ...

  7. List of the oldest buildings in Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Chicago: 1872 Commercial Berghoff Buildings: Chicago: 1872 Commercial Three buildings currently occupied by the Berghoff restaurant Page Brothers Building: Chicago: 1872 Commercial The building features Chicago's last remaining cast iron façade Harker Hall: Urbana: 1877 College building Oldest building in use on the campus of the University of ...

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  9. Chicago Water Tower - Wikipedia

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    Chicago Water Tower and Chicago Avenue Pumping Station, circa 1886 The tower in comparison to other high rises in the area, September 2013. The tower, built in 1869 by architect William W. Boyington from yellowing Lemont limestone, [2] is 182.5 feet (55 m) tall. [3] Inside was a 138-foot (42 m) high standpipe to hold water.