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Detail of a sculpture by Henry Hering. The Civic Opera Building is a 45-story office tower (plus two 22-story wings) located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The building opened November 4, 1929, and has an Art Deco interior. It contains a 3,563-seat opera house, the Civic Opera House, which is the second-largest opera auditorium in North ...
Site of the John and Mary Jones House. Coordinates: 41°52′13″N 87°37′44″W. John and Mary Jane Jones in the 1840s. The Site of the John and Mary Jones House is a site in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States that was designated as a Chicago Landmark on May 26, 2004. [1]
Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop; the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium in the Near ...
Coordinates: 41.9078°N 87.6276°W. East side of Astor Street. The Astor Street District is a historic district in Central Chicago, Illinois. Constructed over a period of more than 100 years, the buildings along Astor Street reflect the fashionable styles favored by their original high-society residents. The numerous 19th-century houses are ...
520 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60605. Opened. 1893; 131 years ago (1893) Design and construction. Architect (s) Clinton J. Warren. Holabird & Roche. The Congress Plaza Hotel is a hotel on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, across from Grant Park. Opened by R.H. Southgate just before the 1893 World’s Fair, [1] the hotel has hosted numerous US ...
May 17, 1984 [1] Designated CL. March 28, 2001. The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions. It gained early notoriety as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was leaving when he was shot down by FBI agents, after he ...
Wolf Point is the location at the confluence of the North, South and Main Branches of the Chicago River in the present day Near North Side, Loop, and Near West Side community areas of Chicago. This fork in the river is historically important in the development of early Chicago. Located about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) from Lake Michigan, [ 1 ] this was ...
The James R. Thompson Center (JRTC), under reconstruction as Google center or Googleplex Chicago, originally the State of Illinois Center, is a postmodern -style building designed by architect Helmut Jahn, located at 100 W. Randolph Street in the Loop district of Chicago. Designed around a post-modernist rotunda, it was built to house offices ...