Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Demolished hotels in Chicago (11 P) Pages in category "Demolished buildings and structures in Chicago" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
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] It is the sixth oldest surviving building in the city.
Pages in category "Former buildings and structures in Chicago" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Downtown buildings are sinking. The good news is that it’s happening slowly. Tribune reporters Adriana Perez and Rebecca Johnson spoke with experts on the cause (underground climate change), the ...
Chicago's building height regulations enacted in 1892 (the year the Temple was built), didn't allow taller buildings, until that was amended in the 1920s. In 1939 the Masonic Temple was demolished, in part due to its poor internal services, but also due to the construction of the new State Street subway , which would have necessitated expensive ...
Part of Rotta Loria’s research involved building a 3D computer model to simulate the evolution of ground temperatures since 1951 — when Chicago completed its subway tunnels — and predict it ...
111 South Wacker Drive is a high-rise office building located in Chicago, Illinois. Completed in 2005 and standing at 681 feet (208 m), the 51 story blue-glass structure is one of the tallest in the city. It sits on the site of the former U.S. Gypsum Building, one of the tallest buildings in Chicago to be demolished.