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Alex Cox's film Searchers 2.0 (2007) is about a road trip to Monument Valley. The final scenes feature a rare depiction of the area covered in snow. Jacques Mesrine and his mistress were arrested near Monument Valley in the film Mesrine (2008). Location sequences for the documentary Reel Injun (2009), on the history of Native Americans in the ...
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
View of Monument Valley in Utah, looking south on U.S. Route 163 from 13 miles (21 km) north of the Utah–Arizona state line Mitchell Mesa from the View Hotel.. Monument Valley (Navajo: Tsé Biiʼ Ndzisgaii, pronounced [tsʰépìːʔ ǹtsɪ̀skɑ̀ìː], meaning "valley of the rocks") is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of sandstone buttes, with the largest reaching ...
President Barack Obama designated Pullman as a national monument, thus a component of the NPS, on February 19, 2015. [10] It became the first unit of the NPS in Chicago. [18] In 2015, the National Parks Conservation Association and the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects published a report on development for the park. [19]
Jean Baptiste Point du Sable (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist pwɛ̃ dy sɑbl]; also spelled Point de Sable, Point au Sable, Point Sable, Pointe DuSable, or Pointe du Sable; [n 1] before 1750 [n 2] – August 28, 1818) is regarded as the first permanent non-Native settler of what would later become Chicago, Illinois, and is recognized as the city's founder. [7]
Obama used the event to designate Chicago’s historic Pullman district a national monument. Dating back to the 1880s, the Pullman district, on the city’s Far South Side, is one of the country ...
Statue of Benito Juárez (Chicago) Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Chicago) Statue of Friedrich Schiller (Chicago) Statue of Irv Kupcinet; Statue of John Peter Altgeld; Statue of Leif Erikson (Chicago) Statue of Nathan Hale (Chicago) Statue of Richard J. Oglesby; Statue of Robert Cavelier de La Salle; Statue of William McKinley (Chicago)
Apr. 1—CONCORD — A lawyer representing two activists has asked a superior court judge to reconsider his decision to endorse the removal of a historical marker honoring Concord labor and ...