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Oldest stone building in Illinois; French military fortification Church of the Holy Family (Cahokia Heights, Illinois) Cahokia Heights, Illinois: 1786-1799 Church French Canadian church [2] Martin–Boismenue House: East Carondelet: 1790 Residential One of the oldest surviving French Colonial structures in Illinois. Creole House: Prairie du ...
The park covers 2,200 acres (890 ha), or about 3.5 square miles (9 km 2), and contains about 80 manmade mounds, but the ancient city was much larger. At its apex around 1100 CE, the city covered about 6 square miles (16 km 2 ), included about 120 earthworks in a wide range of sizes, shapes, and functions, and had a population of between 15,000 ...
[3] Landmark name Image Location County Culture Comments; 1: Albany Mounds Site: Albany: Albany Mounds Trail 4]: Whiteside: Middle Woodland: Hopewell: 2: Alton Military Prison Site: Alton: inside the block bounded by Broadway and William, 4th, and Mill Sts. 5]: Madison: Euro-American: 3: Apple River Fort Site: Elizabeth: 0.25 miles east-southeast of the junction of Myrtle and Illinois Sts. 6 ...
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The site was discovered as part of salvage archaeology in the early 1960s interstate highway construction boom, and one of the circles was reconstructed in the 1980s. [1] The circle has been used to investigate archaeoastronomy at Cahokia. [2] Annual equinox and solstice sunrise observation events are held at the site. [3]
July 31, 2003 (Chicago: Cook: Magnum opus of landscape architect Jens Jensen.: 11: Arthur H. Compton House: Arthur H. Compton House: May 11, 1976 (Chicago: Cook: Home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect.
The Flat Iron Building in Chicago Heights, Illinois, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. [1] It was torn down in 2009. [2] References
Monks Mound is the largest Pre-Columbian earthwork in the Americas and the largest pyramid north of Mesoamerica.The beginning of its construction dates from 900 to 955 CE. Located at the Cahokia Mounds UNESCO World Heritage Site near Collinsville, Illinois, the mound size was calculated in 1988 as about 100 feet (30 m) high, 955 feet (291 m) long including the access ramp at the southern end ...