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  2. Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building - Wikipedia

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    The Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building, also known as the Reid Murdoch Building, the Reid Murdoch Center or the City of Chicago Central Office Building, is a seven-story office building in Chicago. It was constructed in 1914 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1] [2] It also has been designated as a Chicago Landmark. [3]

  3. Metropolitan Tower (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    This 30 story building, standing at 475 feet (145 m) in height, fronts Chicago's Michigan Avenue and Grant Park.The 40-foot (12 m) pyramid at the top of the building (which Schulze & Harrington, authors of Chicago's Famous Buildings, compare with the Tomb of Mausolus at Halicarnassus), with its new zinc-coated stainless steel sheathing, is peaked by a 20-foot (6 m) glass "beehive" ornament ...

  4. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.'s headquarters at the Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building in Chicago. In 1996, Britannica was sold to an investment group led by Jacob E. Safra, a Switzerland-based financier. [5] He restructured the company, laying off more than 120 people including many of the company's top employees.

  5. List of tallest buildings in Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Chicago skyline during sunrise A plethora of towers in downtown Chicago, looking northeast towards Lake Michigan Tallest buildings in Chicago. Chicago, the third-largest city in the United States, is home to 1,397 completed high-rises, [1] 56 of which stand taller than 600 feet (183 m).

  6. Manhattan Building (Chicago, Illinois) - Wikipedia

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    The Manhattan Building is a 16-story building at 431 South Dearborn Street in Chicago, Illinois. It was designed by architect William Le Baron Jenney and constructed from 1889 to 1891. [ 2 ] It is the oldest surviving skyscraper in the world to use a purely skeletal supporting structure. [ 3 ]

  7. Architecture of Chicago - Wikipedia

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    The Chicago Building is an example of Chicago School architecture. Beginning in the early 1880s, architectural pioneers of the Chicago School explored steel-frame construction and, in the 1890s, the use of large areas of plate glass. These were among the first modern skyscrapers.

  8. Montauk Building - Wikipedia

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    It has 150 offices, 300 occupants, and 2 passenger elevators. Erected in 1882, at a cost of $325,000; the first high steel building in Chicago." [5] From 1903-1965, the First National Bank Building occupied the site. In 1965, this was demolished to make way for First National Plaza (now called Chase Tower).

  9. Mather Tower - Wikipedia

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    Mather Tower in 2016. Mather Tower (later Lincoln Tower, as designated on the Michigan–Wacker Historic District roster; now identified primarily by its address) is a Neo-Gothic, terra cotta-clad high-rise structure in Chicago, Illinois, United States.