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71 South Wacker (previously known as the “Hyatt Center”) is an American office tower in Chicago completed in 2005. The 48-story skyscraper stands at 679 feet (207 m) on 71 South Wacker Drive. It is owned by the Irvine Company. The architects were Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. The tower is notable for the lozenge shaped plan and the resulting ...
The Encyclopedia of Chicago (University of Chicago Press 2005) ISBN 0-226-31015-9; The Encyclopedia of Chicago (online version) The Plan of Chicago (reprint ed.). Princeton Architectural Press. 1993. ISBN 978-1-878271-41-9. Smith, Carl (2006). The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City. University of Chicago Press.
The completed San Francisco plan was not implemented in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake, but Bennett became well known for his design work and co-authorship of the 1909 Plan of Chicago. [2] While Burnham raised money and visibility for the Chicago Plan, Bennett created the actual layouts and drawings which are so well known today. [4]
1897 Chicago Library (now Chicago Cultural Center), Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge 1899 Sullivan Center , Louis Sullivan ; 1905–1906, twelve-story south addition, D.H. Burnham & Company 1900–1939 :
The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.
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Chicago River is the south border (right) of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border (left) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center (from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel and Tower at jog in the river in the center) in 2009. The master plan won the 2002 American Institute of Architects ...
Dec. 22—WILLIMANTIC — A long-awaited upgrade to the Willimantic dispatch center will finally get going after the approval of nearly $3 million in funding by the state Bond Commission on Tuesday.