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The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.
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 .
The house was built in 1892 for Edward Morris and his wife Helen Swift Morris. Both of the owners had close ties to Chicago's meatpacking industry; Edward was the president of Morris & Company , while Helen was the daughter of Gustavus Franklin Swift , the founder of Swift & Company .
1892 NL season changes: With the American Association folding, four of its teams, the Baltimore Orioles, Louisville Colonels, St. Louis Browns, and Washington Statesmen (now renamed the Washington Senators), join the National League
Chicago Heights lies on the high land of the Tinley Moraine, with the higher and older Valparaiso Moraine lying just to the south of the city.. According to the 2021 census gazetteer files, Chicago Heights has a total area of 10.30 square miles (26.68 km 2), of which 10.28 square miles (26.63 km 2) (or 99.87%) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) (or 0.13%) is water.
1441-1449 Emerald Ave., Chicago Heights, ... The Flat Iron Building in Chicago Heights, ... available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...
N&W 1887–1964 Wisconsin Central Railway: MStP&SSM 1900–1909 1887–1900 Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago Railway: CI&L 1885–1897 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad – 1969–1971 1892–1969 1883–1892 Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad: PCC&StL 1883–1890 New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad: N&W 1883–1892, 1898–1964
The Chicago Park Boulevard System Historic District, which encompasses most of the Boulevard System, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. [14] The approved listing, stretches approximately 26 miles, including 8 parks, 19 boulevards, and 6 squares, as well as adjacent properties that preserve structures built from the 19th century to the 1940s.