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Chicago Architect Jeanne Gang (Studio Gang) talks to WTTW TV Chicago Tonight on her work and the New Residential Tower 'Aqua", (June 2009). The Building Faces Millennium ...
The University of Chicago is another legacy of the World's Fair of 1893. Fair promoters had convinced the public that Chicago was a major world city. So they had to hurry ...
What is now called Theatre on the Lake was built in 1920 as the Chicago Daily News Fresh Air Sanitarium for Sick Children. The Prairie Style building by Dwight Perkins was ...
It's used for hundred of events every year. But critics call it a boon for the few - that is, Bears fans and team owners - at the expense of the many. The Bears, put up an ...
At 71st St. an exclusive private club claimed a chunk of lakefront land. This was once South Shore Country Club. It had a private beach, a golf course, and a spectacular ...
To fill up its fish tanks for the first time, the Aquarium shipped a million gallons of seawater from Key West Florida in 160 railroad tank cars. See more of Chicago's Lakefront ...
Softball was born at an 1887gathering of Harvard and Yale alumni at the Farragut Boat Club, which stood here. At one point someone threw a rolled up boxing glove at a rival ...
Towering above the Drake the sleek art deco style Palmolive Building from 1929 by architects Holabird and Root cuts a dashing figure on the skyline. It was the headquarters ...
When the Meigs Field airport's 50-year lease expired in 1996 Mayor Richard M. Daley wanted the Meigs Field gone. He agreed to a compromise extending the airport's life a ...
It opened as Municipal Pier in 1916. From the beginning it had two purposes. It was a terminal for Great Lakes shipping and a recreational spot for everyday Chicagoans. People ...
The Museum of Contemporary Art chose a modernist style when they built their new home in 1996. Architect German Architect Josef Paul Kleiheus of Berlin gave it an iconic ...
It's built on the one slice of the downtown lakefront that had never been converted into a park. It was part of the old Illinois Central rail yard. Even after they yard was ...
The architect was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, head of architecture at IIT, and one of the most important architects of the 20th century. The Chicago Landmarks commission said,...
McCormick place now has a staggering 2.7 million square feet of exhibition space. Making it the largest convention center in the country. See more Chicago's Lakefront architecture ...
Marlin Perkins got his start in TV when he was director of Lincoln Park Zoo in the 1940s. For nearly a decade he hosted a weekly show called Zoo Parade broadcast live from ...
According to the book "The Politics of Place" a city ordinance permitted construction of harbor and terminal buildings near the mouth of the Chicago River. The developers ...
The Union army used this land as a prisoner of war camp. Around 30000 Confederate soldiers were imprisoned here. Thousands died in the horrible conditions. The Lake Meadows ...
Jackson Park even hosted America's first motorcar race. It went to Evanston and back on a perfectly miserable, snowy Thanksgiving Day in 1895. Six cars entered. Two finished....
The heart of Grant Park is Buckingham Fountain on the site of Montgomery Ward's last stand. Architects Bennett, Parsons and Frost, modeled it on one of the fountains at Versailles....
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