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Included also are numerous religious buildings, 15 hotels, [3] and six theaters. [4] Fully 55 are located in the downtown Loop area, including the Loop Retail Historic District itself. Chicago is a historic and continuing world port city due to its location on the Great Lakes, which has an outlet to the Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence Seaway.
The building briefly served as Chicago's first theater, [1] and hosted the first Chicago Theatre Company in November 1837 in an abandoned dining room. [14] [15] By 1839, it returned to service as a hotel, [8] but was destroyed by fire in 1851, [1] and subsequently torn down. [16] The Wigwam was built in its place nine years later. [17]
The Lexington Hotel was built in 1892 (or 1891 [3]) for attendees of the Columbian Exposition. [4] The hotel is notable for being Al Capone's primary residence from July 1928 until his arrest in 1931. [5] After the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, some commenters called the hotel "Capone's Castle."
The Sherman House (sometimes called, Hotel Sherman) was a hotel in Chicago, Illinois that operated from 1837 until 1973, with four iterations standing at the same site at the northwest corner of Randolph Street and Clark Street. Long one of the city's major hotels, the hotel's fortunes declined in the 1950s amid changes to its surrounding area ...
The Guyon Hotel is a historic former hotel in Chicago, Illinois.The hotel was designed by Jens J. Jensen - no relation to the famous landscape architect Jens Jensen - in 1927 and was built in red and cream brick with arched windows on two floors and exquisite, detailed terra cotta ornaments typical of Jensen's work.
Because Lewes was Delaware's first town and because Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, it is known as "the first town in the first state." [citation needed] 1631: Cambridge: Massachusetts: United States [16] 1632: Williamsburg: Virginia: United States: 1633: Ipswich: Massachusetts: United States: 1632: St. John's: Antigua ...
William Hale Thompson (#41) was the last Republican mayor of Chicago. Jane Byrne (#50) was the first female mayor. Harold Washington (#51) was the first African American mayor. Richard M. Daley (#54) was the longest-serving mayor (22 years). Lori Lightfoot (#56) was the first African American woman mayor of Chicago.
The Mark Twain Hotel is a historic residential hotel located at 111 W. Division Street in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.Built in 1930 by developer Fred Becklenberg, the hotel was one of several residential hotels built to house the influx of labor to Chicago in the late 1920s.