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66 relations: Al Capone, Alexander Calder, Ancient Roman architecture, Architecture of Chicago, Baluster, Beaux-Arts architecture, Century of Progress, Chicago, Chicago Board of Trade Building, Chicago Loop, Chicago Tribune, Commissioner of Baseball, Corinthian order, Cross, Dormer, Egg-and-dart, Emporis, Encyclopedia of Chicago, Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse, Federal government of the United States, Federal judiciary of the United States, Flamingo (sculpture), General contractor, General Services Administration, Great Chicago Fire, Grover Cleveland, Henry Ives Cobb, Illinois, Industrial Workers of the World, James Farley, James Herbert Wilkerson, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Kluczynski Federal Building, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Midwestern United States, Miniature sheet, National Weather Service, New York City, Pilaster, Portland, Oregon, Post office, Postage stamp, Postmaster General, Railway Mail Service, Roman Empire, Rotunda (architecture), Scagliola, SkyscraperPage, Standard Oil, Tax evasion, ..., Terracotta, The Oregonian, Tholobate, United States Capitol, United States Civil Service Commission, United States Custom House, Court House, and Post Office (Chicago, Illinois, 1880), United States dollar, University of Chicago, University of Chicago Press, Vitrified tile, Walt Disney, Washington, D.C., William McKinley, World's Columbian Exposition, World's fair, 333 North Michigan. Expand index (16 more) »
Al Capone
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), sometimes known by the nickname "Scarface", was an American gangster and businessman who attained notoriety during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit.
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Alexander Calder
Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century.
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Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but differed from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.
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Architecture of Chicago
The buildings and architecture of Chicago have influenced and reflected the history of American architecture.
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Baluster
A baluster—also called spindle or stair stick—is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, cut from a rectangular or square plank, one of various forms of spindle in woodwork, made of stone or wood and sometimes of metal, standing on a unifying footing, and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase.
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Beaux-Arts architecture
Beaux-Arts architecture was the academic architectural style taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, particularly from the 1830s to the end of the 19th century.
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Century of Progress
A Century of Progress International Exposition was a World's Fair registered under the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which was held in Chicago, as The Chicago World's Fair, from 1933 to 1934 to celebrate the city's centennial.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chicago Board of Trade Building
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a skyscraper located in Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Loop
The Loop is the central business district or downtown area of Chicago, Illinois.
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Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.
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Commissioner of Baseball
The Commissioner of Baseball is the chief executive of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the associated Minor League Baseball (MiLB) – a constellation of leagues and clubs known as organized baseball.
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Corinthian order
The Corinthian order is the last developed of the three principal classical orders of ancient Greek and Roman architecture.
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Cross
A cross is a geometrical figure consisting of two intersecting lines or bars, usually perpendicular to each other.
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Dormer
A dormer is a roofed structure, often containing a window, that projects vertically beyond the plane of a pitched roof.
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Egg-and-dart
Egg-and-dart or egg-and-tongue is an ornamental device often carved in wood, stone, or plaster quarter-round ovolo mouldings, consisting of an egg-shaped object alternating with an element shaped like an arrow, anchor or dart.
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Emporis
Emporis GmbH is a real estate data mining company with headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
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Encyclopedia of Chicago
The Encyclopedia of Chicago is an historical reference work covering Chicago and the entire Chicago metropolitan area published by the University of Chicago Press.
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Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse
The Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse, commonly referred to as the Dirksen Federal Building, is a skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois, at 219 South Dearborn Street.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.
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Federal judiciary of the United States
The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three co-equal branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.
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Flamingo (sculpture)
Flamingo, created by noted American artist Alexander Calder, is a tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
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General contractor
A general contractor (main contractor, prime contractor) is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of a construction site, management of vendors and trades, and the communication of information to all involved parties throughout the course of a building project.
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General Services Administration
The General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the United States government, was established in 1949 to help manage and support the basic functioning of federal agencies.
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Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to Tuesday, October 10, 1871.
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Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was an American politician and lawyer who was the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only president in American history to serve two non-consecutive terms in office (1885–1889 and 1893–1897).
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Henry Ives Cobb
Henry Ives Cobb (August 19, 1859 – March 27, 1931) was an architect from the United States.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Industrial Workers of the World
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies", is an international labor union that was founded in 1905 in Chicago, Illinois in the United States of America.
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James Farley
James Aloysius "Jim" Farley (May 30, 1888 – June 9, 1976) was one of the first Irish Catholic politicians in American history to achieve success on a national level.
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James Herbert Wilkerson
James Herbert Wilkerson (December 11, 1869 – September 30, 1948) was a United States federal judge.
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (November 20, 1866 – November 25, 1944) was an American jurist who served as a federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death.
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Kluczynski Federal Building
The Kluczynski Federal Building is a skyscraper in the downtown Chicago Loop located at 230 South Dearborn Street.
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect.
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Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the American Midwest, Middle West, or simply the Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (also known as "Region 2").
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Miniature sheet
A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a small group of postage stamps still attached to the sheet on which they were printed.
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National Weather Service
The National Weather Service (NWS) is an agency of the United States Federal Government that is tasked with providing weather forecasts, warnings of hazardous weather, and other weather-related products to organizations and the public for the purposes of protection, safety, and general information.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Pilaster
The pilaster is an architectural element in classical architecture used to give the appearance of a supporting column and to articulate an extent of wall, with only an ornamental function.
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Portland, Oregon
Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and the seat of Multnomah County.
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Post office
A post office is a customer service facility forming part of a national postal system.
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Postage stamp
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage.
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Postmaster General
A Postmaster General, in many countries, is the chief executive officer of the postal service of that country, responsible for oversight over all other Postmasters.
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Railway Mail Service
The United States Postal Service's Railway Mail Service was a significant mail transportation service in the US during the time period from the mid-19th century until the mid-20th century.
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Roman Empire
The Roman Empire (Imperium Rōmānum,; Koine and Medieval Greek: Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων, tr.) was the post-Roman Republic period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterized by government headed by emperors and large territorial holdings around the Mediterranean Sea in Europe, Africa and Asia.
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Rotunda (architecture)
A rotunda (from Latin rotundus) is any building with a circular ground plan, and sometimes covered by a dome.
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Scagliola
Scagliola (from the Italian scaglia, meaning "chips") is a technique for producing stucco columns, sculptures and other architectural elements that resemble inlays in marble and semi-precious stones.
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SkyscraperPage
SkyscraperPage is an internet forum for skyscraper hobbyists and enthusiasts that tracks existing and proposed skyscrapers around the world.
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Standard Oil
Standard Oil Co.
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Tax evasion
Tax evasion is the illegal evasion of taxes by individuals, corporations, and trusts.
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Terracotta
Terracotta, terra cotta or terra-cotta (Italian: "baked earth", from the Latin terra cocta), a type of earthenware, is a clay-based unglazed or glazed ceramic, where the fired body is porous.
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The Oregonian
The Oregonian is a daily newspaper based in Portland, Oregon, owned by Advance Publications.
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Tholobate
A tholobate or drum, in architecture, is the upright part of a building on which a dome is raised.
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United States Capitol
The United States Capitol, often called the Capitol Building, is the home of the United States Congress, and the seat of the legislative branch of the U.S. federal government.
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United States Civil Service Commission
The United States Civil Service Commission was a government agency of the federal government of the United States and was created to select employees of federal government on merit rather than relationships.
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United States Custom House, Court House, and Post Office (Chicago, Illinois, 1880)
The United States Custom House, Court House, and Post Office was a federal government building from the 1870s to 1896 in the block bounded by Adams Street, Jackson Boulevard, Dearborn Street, and Clark Street in the Chicago Loop The supervising architect was James G. Gill.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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University of Chicago
The University of Chicago (UChicago, U of C, or Chicago) is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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University of Chicago Press
The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest university presses in the United States.
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Vitrified tile
Vitrified tile is a ceramic tile with very low porosity.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American entrepreneur, animator, voice actor and film producer.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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William McKinley
William McKinley (January 29, 1843 – September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination in September 1901, six months into his second term.
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World's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition (the official shortened name for the World's Fair: Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair and Chicago Columbian Exposition) was a world's fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
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World's fair
A world's fair, world fair, world expo, universal exposition, or international exposition (sometimes expo or Expo for short) is a large international exhibition designed to showcase achievements of nations.
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333 North Michigan
333 North Michigan is a skyscraper in the art deco style located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Federal_Building
