List of Chicago Landmarks

Chicago Landmark is a designation of the Mayor of Chicago and the Chicago City Council for historic buildings and other sites in Chicago, Illinois, United States. ^[1]

Abraham Lincoln: The Man

Abraham Lincoln: The Man (also called Standing Lincoln) is a larger-than-life size bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States.

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Addison Street

Addison Street is a major east–west street on the north side of Chicago.

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Adler Planetarium

The Adler Planetarium is a public museum dedicated to the study of astronomy and astrophysics.

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Alderman

An alderman is a member of a municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law.

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The Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, also known as Lincoln Park Lily Pool, is an important example of Prairie School landscape architecture designed by Alfred Caldwell and located at 125 W. Fullerton Parkway (between Stockton and Cannon Drives) in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois.

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All Saints Episcopal Church (Chicago)

All Saints Episcopal Church (or All Saints) is a church of the Episcopal Church of the United States at 4550 North Hermitage Avenue in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Allan Miller House

The Allan Miller House is a prairie style house in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago, United States.

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Alta Vista Terrace District

The Alta Vista Terrace District is a historic district in the Lake View community of Chicago, Illinois.

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American School of Correspondence

The American School of Correspondence is an American distance education high school in Lansing, Illinois.

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American System-Built Homes

The American System-Built Homes were modest houses designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel

Anshe Sholom B'nai Israel (Hebrew for: "People of Peace" followed by "Children of Israel") is a Modern Orthodox congregation located in the Lakeview neighborhood on the north side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Archer Avenue

Archer Avenue, sometimes known as Archer Road outside the Chicago, Illinois city limits, and also known as State Street only in Lockport, Illinois and Fairmont, Illinois city limits, is a street running northeast-to-southwest between Chicago's Chinatown and Lockport.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.

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Architectural style

An architectural style is characterized by the features that make a building or other structure notable or historically identifiable.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Arlington and Roslyn Place District

The Arlington and Roslyn Place District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Armitage-Halsted District

The Armitage-Halsted District is a historic district in the Lincoln Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Art

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual idea, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

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Arthur H. Compton House

The Arthur H. Compton House is a historic house at 5637 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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Assumption School

The Assumption School was a Catholic elementary school in Chicago, Illinois from 1899 to 1945.

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Astor Street District

The Astor Street District is a historic district in, Illinois.

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Auditorium Building (Chicago)

The Auditorium Building in Chicago is one of the best-known designs of Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler.

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Bachman House

The Bachman House is a house in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Beeson House and Coach House

The Beeson House and Coach House is a Queen Anne style house located at 5801 West Midway Park in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Belle Shore Apartment Hotel

The Belle Shore Apartment Hotel is a building of the Bryn Mawr Historic District in the far-north community area of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois.

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Belmont Avenue (Chicago)

Belmont Avenue (3200 N) is a major east-west street on the North Side of Chicago.

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Belmont–Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank Building

The Belmont–Sheffield Trust and Savings Bank Building is a six-story building built in 1928 at 1001 W. Belmont Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

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Berger Park

Berger Park, officially Park #1255 of the Chicago Park District, is a small recreational area bordering Lake Michigan in the Edgewater neighborhood of North Side, Chicago, Illinois.

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Beverly/Morgan Railroad District

The Beverly/Morgan Railroad District is a historic district in the Beverly, Morgan Park, and Washington Heights community areas of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Biograph Theater

The Biograph Theater, at 2433 North Lincoln Avenue, near Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions.

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Black Metropolis–Bronzeville District

Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District is a historic district in the Bronzeville neighborhood of South Side, Chicago, Illinois.

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Blackstone Library

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Brewster Apartments

a sign at the entrance to the building The Brewster Apartments (originally known as the Lincoln Park Palace) is a residential building in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Broadway (Chicago)

Broadway is a major street in Chicago's Lake View, Uptown, and Edgewater community areas on the city's North Side, running from Diversey Parkway (2800 North) to Devon Avenue (6400 North).

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Brooks Building

The Brooks Building in Chicago was built in 1909–1910 in the Chicago School architectural style.

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Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel

The Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotel is a 12-story building in the Bryn Mawr Historic District in far-north neighborhood community of Edgewater in Chicago, Illinois.

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Bubbly Creek

Bubbly Creek is the nickname given to the South Fork of the South Branch of the Chicago River.

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Buckingham Fountain

Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago landmark in the center of Grant Park.

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Building

A building, or edifice, is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory.

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Burling Row House District

The Burling Row House District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Bush Temple of Music

The Bush Temple of Music, at 100 West Chicago Avenue in Chicago, was built in 1901 as the headquarters and showroom of the Bush and Gerts Piano Company, one of Chicago’s leading piano companies.

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Business cycle

The business cycle, also known as the economic cycle or trade cycle, is the downward and upward movement of gross domestic product (GDP) around its long-term growth trend.

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Cable House

The Cable House is a Richardsonian Romanesque-style house near Michigan Avenue at 25 E. Erie St.

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Café Brauer

Café Brauer (also known as the South Pond Refectory) is a restaurant building and official landmark located in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois, at the edge of the Lincoln Park Zoo.

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Calumet Park

Calumet Park is a 198-acre (79-hectare) park in Chicago, Illinois.

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Calumet River

The Calumet River is a system of heavily industrialized rivers and canals in the region between the neighborhood of South Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and the city of Gary, Indiana.

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Calumet/Giles Prairie District

The Calumet/Giles Prairie District is a historic district in the South Side, Chicago community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Canal Street railroad bridge

The Canal Street railroad bridge (or Pennsylvania Railroad bridge) is a vertical-lift bridge across the south branch of the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois.

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Carbide & Carbon Building

The Carbide & Carbon Building is a 37-story, landmark Art Deco skyscraper built in 1929, located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, writer, and editor.

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Carl Schurz High School

Carl Schurz High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Irving Park neighborhood on the northwest side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Carl Street Studios

The Carl Street Studios is an enclave in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood.

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Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb

The Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb, located in Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, United States, was commissioned in 1890 by the lumber baron, Henry Harrison Getty, for his wife, Carrie Eliza.

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Century Tower (Chicago)

The Century Tower Condominiums, formerly known as the Trustees System Service Building, is a historic building located at 182 West Lake Street in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois.

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Cermak Road

Cermak Road, also known as 22nd Street, is a 19-mile-long, major east-west street on Chicago's near south and west sides and the city's western suburbs.

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Chapin and Gore Building

The Chapin and Gore Building is a historic building located at 63 East Adams Street in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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Cherry Avenue Bridge

The Cherry Avenue Bridge (North Avenue railroad bridge, or Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Bridge No. Z-2) is an asymmetric bob-tail swing bridge in Chicago, Illinois that carries the Chicago Terminal Railroad, pedestrians, and cyclists across the North Branch Canal of the Chicago River.

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Chess Records

Chess Records was an American record company, founded in 1950 in Chicago and specializing in blues and rhythm and blues.

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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 and North Western Railway Power House

The Chicago and North Western Railway Power House is the historic power house which served the 1911 Chicago and North Western Terminal in Chicago, Illinois.

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Chicago Avenue

Chicago Avenue is a major east–west street in Chicago, Illinois that runs at 800 north from 385 east to 5968 west in the Chicago street address system from which point it enters the suburbs and goes into several different suburban address systems.

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Chicago Bee Building

The Chicago Bee Building is a historic building on Chicago's South Side.

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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 Building

The Chicago Building or Chicago Savings Bank Building is an early skyscraper, built in 1904–1905.

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Chicago City Council

The Chicago City Council is the legislative branch of the government of the City of Chicago in Illinois.

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Chicago City Hall

Chicago City Hall is the official seat of government of the City of Chicago in Illinois, United States.

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Chicago Cultural Center

The Chicago Cultural Center, opened in 1897, is a Chicago Landmark building that houses the city's official reception venue where the Mayor of Chicago has welcomed Presidents and royalty, diplomats and community leaders.

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Chicago Defender Building

The Chicago Defender Building is the former Jewish synagogue building that housed the Chicago Defender from 1920 until 1960.

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Chicago Harbor

Generally, the Chicago Harbor comprises the public rivers, canals, and lakes within the territorial limits of the City of Chicago and all connecting slips, basins, piers, breakwaters, and permanent structures therein for a distance of three miles from the shore between the extended north and south lines of the city.

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Chicago Harbor Light

The Chicago Harbor Lighthouse is an automated active lighthouse, and stands at the south end of the northern breakwater protecting the Chicago Harbor, to the east of Navy Pier and the mouth of the Chicago River.

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Chicago Pile-1

Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1) was the world's first nuclear reactor.

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Chicago Public Library

The Chicago Public Library (CPL) is the public library system that serves the City of Chicago in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Chicago River

The Chicago River is a system of rivers and canals with a combined length of that runs through the city of Chicago, including its center (the Chicago Loop).

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Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal

The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River.

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Chicago Theatre

The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

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Chicago Union Station

Chicago Union Station is a major railroad station that opened in 1925 in Chicago, Illinois, replacing an earlier station built in 1881.

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Chicago Varnish Company Building

The Chicago Varnish Company Building, at 33 West Kinzie Street, was built in 1895 as the headquarters of one of the leading varnish manufacturers in the United States, the Chicago Varnish Company.

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Civic Opera House (Chicago)

The Civic Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago.

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Clark Street (Chicago)

Clark Street is a north-south street in Chicago, Illinois that runs close to the shore of Lake Michigan from the northern city boundary with Evanston, to 2200 South in the city street numbering system.

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Columbus Drive (Chicago)

Columbus Drive is a north-south street in Chicago, Illinois which bisects Grant Park.

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Columbus Park (Chicago)

Columbus Park is a park located on the far West Side of Chicago, Illinois in the Austin neighborhood.

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Colvin House

The Colvin House is a house at 5940 North Sheridan Road in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Commission on Chicago Landmarks

The Commission on Chicago Landmarks, established in 1968 by a Chicago City Ordinance, is composed of nine members appointed by the Mayor and the Chicago City Council.

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Community areas in Chicago

The community areas in Chicago, as defined by the Social Science Research Committee at the University of Chicago, are 77 divisions of Chicago.

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Congress Theater

The Congress Theater is a historic movie palace in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago.

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Cortland Street Drawbridge

The Cortland Street Drawbridge (originally known as the Clybourn Place drawbridge) over the Chicago River is the original Chicago-style fixed-trunnion bascule bridge, designed by John Ericson and Edward Wilmann.

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Courthouse Place

Courthouse Place, also known as the Cook County Criminal Court Building, is a Richardsonian Romanesque-style building at 54 West Hubbard Street in the Near North Side of Chicago.

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Cultural heritage

Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and preserved for the benefit of future generations.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Daniel Hale Williams House

The Daniel Hale Williams House is the former home of Dr.

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Dearborn Station

Dearborn Station (also referred to as Polk Street Station) was the oldest of the six intercity train stations serving downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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DeKoven Street (Chicago)

DeKoven Street is a street in Chicago, Illinois named for John DeKoven, one of the founders of the Northern Trust Company.

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Delaware Building

The Delaware Building is a building in the Chicago Loop built in the massive rebuilding effort after the 1871 Great Chicago Fire.

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Demolition

Demolition or razing is the tearing down of buildings and other man-made structures.

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Design

Design is the creation of a plan or convention for the construction of an object, system or measurable human interaction (as in architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns).

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Designer

A designer is a person who designs.

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Devon Avenue (Chicago)

Devon Avenue is a major east-west street in the Chicago metropolitan area.

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Dexter Building

The Dexter Building was a landmark building located at 630 South Wabash Avenue, in the South Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Diversey Parkway (Chicago)

Diversey Parkway (2800 N.) is a major east-west street on the North Side of Chicago.

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Division Street

Division Street is a major east-west street in Chicago, Illinois, located at 1200 North (one and a half miles north of Madison Street).

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Dr. Philip Weintraub House

The Dr.

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Dr. Wallace C. Abbott House

The Dr.

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Drake Fountain

The Drake Fountain, also known as the Columbus Monument, is located on a triangular site bounded by 92nd Street, South Chicago Avenue and Exchange Avenue in the Chicago neighborhood known as South Chicago.

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DuPont–Whitehouse House

The DuPont–Whitehouse House is an Italianate-style house located at 3558 South Artesian Avenue in the McKinley Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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DuSable High School

Jean Baptiste Point DuSable High School is a public 4–year high school campus located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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East Lake Shore Drive District

The East Lake Shore Drive District is a historic district in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Economy

An economy (from Greek οίκος – "household" and νέμoμαι – "manage") is an area of the production, distribution, or trade, and consumption of goods and services by different agents.

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Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist

Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist is an historic Christian Science church located at 4359 S. Michigan Avenue / 112 E. 44th street (Michigan Avenue at 44th Street) in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Eighth Regiment Armory (Chicago)

The Eighth Regiment Armory, located in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District of Chicago, Illinois, was the first armory in the United States built for an African-American military regiment, known as the "Fighting 8th".

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Elam House

The Elam House is a chateauesque-style house at 4726 South Martin Luther King Jr.

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Eliel House

The Eliel House is a house at 4122 South Ellis Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Elks National Veterans Memorial

The Elks National Veterans Memorial (officially the Elks National Memorial and Headquarters Building) is a Beaux Arts-style domed building at 2750 North Lakeview Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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Emil Bach House

The Emil Bach House is a Prairie style house in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States that was designed by famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

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Engineer

Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are people who invent, design, analyze, build, and test machines, systems, structures and materials to fulfill objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety, and cost.

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Essanay Studios

The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company was an American motion picture studio.

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F. R. Schock House

The F. R. Schock House is a Queen Anne style house at 5804 West Midway Park in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Field Building (Chicago)

The Field Building, also known as the LaSalle National Bank Building and Bank of America Building is an art deco office building at 135 South LaSalle Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States.

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Fine Arts Building (Chicago)

The ten-story Fine Arts Building, also known as the Studebaker Building, is located at 410 S Michigan Avenue across from Grant Park in Chicago in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District.

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First Baptist Congregational Church

First Baptist Congregational Church is a United Church of Christ and Baptist congregation currently located at 60 N. Ashland Blvd.

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First Church of Deliverance

First Church of Deliverance is a landmark Spiritual church located at 4315 South Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

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Fisher Building (Chicago)

The Fisher Building is 20-story, neo-Gothic landmark building located at 343 South Dearborn Street in the Chicago Loop community area of Chicago.

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Fisher Studio Houses

The Fisher Studio Houses are a complex of 12 art moderne style residential units in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Five Houses on Avers District

The Five Houses on Avers District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Florsheim Shoe Company Building

The Florsheim Shoe Company Building is a former factory for the Florsheim Shoe Company and a Chicago Landmark in the Avondale neighborhood.

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Former Chicago Historical Society Building

The Former Chicago Historical Society Building is a historic landmark located at 632 N. Dearborn Street on the northwest corner of Dearborn and Ontario streets near downtown Chicago.

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Fort Dearborn

Fort Dearborn was a United States fort built in 1803 beside the Chicago River, in what is now Chicago, Illinois.

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Francis J. Dewes House

The Francis J. Dewes House is a house located at 503 West Wrightwood Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright (born Frank Lincoln Wright, June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was an American architect, interior designer, writer and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed.

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Frank R. Lillie House

The Frank R. Lillie House is a historic house at 5801 South Kenwood Avenue, on the campus of the University of Chicago on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Fulton-Randolph Market District

The Fulton-Randolph Market District is a district on the Near West Side of Chicago.

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Gage Group Buildings

The Gage Group Buildings consist of three buildings located at 18, 24 and 30 S. Michigan Avenue, between Madison Street and Monroe Street, in Chicago, Illinois.

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Garfield Park (Chicago)

Garfield Park is a urban park located in the East Garfield Park neighborhood on Chicago's West Side.

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Garfield station (CTA Green Line)

Garfield is one of two stations on Garfield Boulevard in Chicago.

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Gauler Twin Houses

The Gauler Twin Houses are two specular Prairie style houses located at 5917 and 5921 North Magnolia Avenue 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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George Herbert Jones Laboratory

The George Herbert Jones Laboratory is an academic building at 5747 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, on the main campus of the University of Chicago.

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German submarine U-505

U-505 is a German Type IXC U-boat built for Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II.

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Germania Club Building

The Germania Club Building, located at 108 W. Germania Place in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, is the historic headquarters of the Germania Club, the oldest German-American organization in the city.

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Goldblatt's

Goldblatt's was an American chain of local discount stores that operated in Chicago, Illinois as well as Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin.

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Graceland Cemetery

Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian era cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in the city of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Grand Avenue (Chicago)

Grand Avenue is a major east-west street in the city of Chicago and nearby DuPage County, although it deviates somewhat from Chicago's grid system, as it is diagonal west of Western Avenue.

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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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Groesbeck House

The Groesbeck House is an Italianate style house located at 1304 West Washington Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Gwendolyn Brooks

Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher.

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Halsted Street

Halsted Street is a major north-south street in the American city of Chicago, Illinois.

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Harriet F. Rees House

The Harriet F. Rees House (1888) is a historic residence in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Harris and Selwyn Theaters

The Harris and Selwyn Theaters are twin theatres located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Hawthorne Place District

The Hawthorne Place District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Haymarket affair

The Haymarket affair (also known as the Haymarket massacre or Haymarket riot) was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration on Tuesday, May 4, 1886, at Haymarket Square in Chicago.

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Heald Square Monument

The Heald Square Monument is a bronze sculpture group by Lorado Taft in Heald Square, Chicago, Illinois.

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Heller House

The Isidore H. Heller House is a house located at 5132 South Woodlawn Avenue in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Henry B. Clarke House

The Henry B. Clarke House is a Greek Revival style house in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Henry Gerber House

The Henry Gerber House is located on North Crilly Court in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Heyworth Building

The Heyworth Building is a Chicago Landmark located at 29 East Madison Street, on the southwest corner of Madison Street and Wabash Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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Historic districts in the United States

In the United States, a historic district is a group of buildings, properties, or sites that have been designated by one of several entities on different levels as historically or architecturally significant.

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Historic Michigan Boulevard District

The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.

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Historic preservation

Historic preservation (US), heritage preservation or heritage conservation (UK), is an endeavour that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance.

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History

History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.

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Hitchcock House (Chicago, Illinois)

The Hitchcock House is a house at 5704 W. Ohio Street in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Chicago)

Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral is the cathedral church of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the Midwest.

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Hotel St. Benedict Flats

Hotel St.

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Hubbard Street

Hubbard Street is a street in Chicago, Illinois named for early settler Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard.

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Hull House

Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.

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Humboldt Park (Chicago park)

Humboldt Park is a park located at 1400 North Sacramento Avenue on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Hyde Park-Kenwood National Bank Building

The Hyde Park-Kenwood National Bank Building was built in 1928-29 at 1525 East 53rd Street, Chicago, Illinois, as the headquarters and sole business location of the Hyde Park-Kenwood National Bank, a community bank that served the Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park.

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett House

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett House was the residence of civil rights advocate Ida B. Wells, (1862–1931) and her husband Ferdinand Lee Barnett from 1919 to 1930.

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Iglehart House

The Iglehart House is an Italianate style house in the Morgan Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States, and one of the city's oldest surviving buildings.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois and Michigan Canal

The Illinois and Michigan Canal connected the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama.

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Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus

Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus or IIT Main Campus is one of five campuses of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

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Illinois Route 19

Illinois Route 19 (abbreviated IL-19, or simply Illinois 19) is a major east–west arterial road in northeastern Illinois, United States.

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Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker

The Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker is a sandstone boundary marker obelisk located near the end of Chicago's Avenue G, just west of the State Line Generating Plant of Hammond, Indiana.

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Immaculata High School (Chicago)

Immaculata High School was an all-girls Catholic high school located in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Indian Boundary Park

Indian Boundary Park is a urban park in the West Ridge neighborhood of North Side, Chicago, Illinois.

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Inland Steel Building

The Inland Steel Building, located at 30 W. Monroe Street in Chicago, is one of the city's defining commercial high-rises of the post-World War II era of modern architecture.

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Innovation

Innovation can be defined simply as a "new idea, device or method".

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Interstate 55 in Illinois

Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major north–south Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Illinois that connects the St. Louis, Missouri, and Chicago metropolitan areas.

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Interstate 90 in Illinois

Interstate 90 (I-90) in the U.S. state of Illinois runs roughly northwest-to-southeast through the northern part of the state.

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J. J. Walser Jr. residence

The J. J. Walser Jr.

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Jackson Boulevard District and Extension

The West Jackson Boulevard District in Chicago, Illinois, also known as West Jackson Historic District, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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Jackson Park (Chicago)

Jackson Park is a 500-acre (2 km²) park located at 6401 South Stony Island Avenue in the Woodlawn community area on South Side in Chicago, Illinois.

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Jackson Park Highlands District

The Jackson Park Highlands District is a historic district in the South Shore community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Jackson-Thomas House

The Jackson-Thomas House is an Italianate style and Second Empire architecture house at 7053 North Ridge Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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James Charnley House

The James Charnley Residence, also known as the Charnley-Persky House, is a historic house museum at 1365 North Astor Street in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite

The Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite is the location where, in the 1780s, Jean Baptiste Point du Sable located his home and trading post.

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Jewelers Building (1882)

The Jewelers Building at 15-17 Wabash Avenue between East Monroe and East Madison Streets in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States was built in 1881-1882 and was designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan.

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Jewelers Row District

The Jewelers Row District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois in the United States.

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Jewish People's Institute

The Jewish People's Institute is a historic Jewish community center building located at 3500 W. Douglas Boulevard in the North Lawndale community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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John J. Glessner House

The John J. Glessner House, operated as the Glessner House Museum, is an architecturally important 19th-century residence located at 1800 S. Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.

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KAM Isaiah Israel

KAM Isaiah Israel is a synagogue located in the historic Kenwood neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois.

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Keck-Gottschalk-Keck Apartments

The Keck-Gottschalk-Keck Apartments comprise a 1931 International Style three-flat in Chicago, Illinois.

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Kenwood District

The Kenwood District is a historic district in the officially designated Kenwood community area of Chicago, Illinois bounded by E. 47th and E. 51st Streets, S. Blackstone and S. Drexel Avenues.

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Kenwood Evangelical Church

Kenwood Evangelical Church (also known as Kenwood United Church of Christ) is a historic church building at 4600-4608 South Greenwood Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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King–Nash House

The King–Nash House, also known as Patrick J. King House, is a combination of Sullivanesque, Colonial Revival, and Prairie styles house at 3234 West Washington Boulevard in the East Garfield Park area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Kinzie Street railroad bridge

The Chicago and North Western Railway's Kinzie Street railroad bridge (also known as the Carroll Avenue bridge) is a single leaf bascule bridge across the north branch of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois.

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Krause Music Store

The Krause Music Store, a National Historic landmark building, is an award-winning adaptive re-use of a 1922-vintage structure and the final work of famed architect Louis Sullivan, considered one of the greatest architects of the Chicago School of Architecture.

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Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States.

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Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Bridge No. 6

Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, Bridge No.

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Lake Shore Drive

Lake Shore Drive (colloquially referred to as the Outer Drive, but also sometimes as The Drive or LSD) is an expressway that runs parallel with and alongside the shoreline of Lake Michigan through the city of Chicago, Illinois.

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Lake Street (Chicago)

Lake Street is an east–west street in Chicago and its suburbs.

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Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois

The Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois -- also known as Landmarks Illinois -- is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1971 to prevent the demolition of the Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan designed Chicago Stock Exchange Building.

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LaSalle Street

LaSalle Street is a major north-south street in Chicago named for Robert de La Salle, an early explorer of Illinois.

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LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse (Chicago)

The LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse at 500 North LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois (northwest corner of LaSalle and Illinois Streets) is a rare surviving artifact of Chicago's cable car system, which at its peak in the 1890s was one of the largest in the country, in terms of riders and equipment.

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Lathrop House

The Lathrop House, also known as the Bryan Lathrop House, is a Georgian style house at 120 E Bellevue Place in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Limited-access road

A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway (freeway or motorway), including limited or no access to adjacent property, some degree of separation of opposing traffic flow, use of grade separated interchanges to some extent, prohibition of some modes of transport such as bicycles or horses, and very few or no intersecting cross-streets.

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Lincoln Avenue (Chicago)

Lincoln Avenue is a street of the north side of city of Chicago.

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Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park is a park situated along Lake Michigan on North Side in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lincoln Park Zoo

Lincoln Park Zoo is a zoo located in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois.

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List of areas in the United States National Park System

The National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service.

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List of neighborhoods in Chicago

There are more than 200 neighborhoods in Chicago, but there is no official list of the city's neighborhoods or their boundaries.

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List of tallest buildings in Chicago

Chicago, the third-largest city in the United States, is home to 1,315 completed high-rises, 44 of which stand taller than.

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London Guarantee Building

The London Guarantee Building or London Guaranty & Accident Building is a historic 1923 commercial skyscraper whose primary occupant since 2016 is the LondonHouse Chicago Hotel Formerly, for a time named the Stone Container Building, it is located near the Loop in Chicago, and is one of four 1920s skyscrapers that surround the Michigan Avenue Bridge (the others are the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower and 333 North Michigan Avenue) and is a contributing property to the Michigan–Wacker Historic District.

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Longwood Drive District

The Longwood Drive District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lorado Taft Midway Studios

The Lorado Taft Midway Studios are a historic artist studio complex at South Ingleside Avenue and East 60th Street, on the campus of the University of Chicago on the South Side of Chicago.

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Lorraine Hansberry

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry (May 19, 1930 – January 12, 1965) was an African-American playwright and writer.

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Louis Sullivan

Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called the "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism".

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Ludington Building

The Ludington Building is the earliest-surviving, steel-frame building in Chicago, Illinois.

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Madison Street (Chicago)

Madison Street is a major east–west street in Chicago, Illinois.

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Madlener House

The Madlener House, also known as the Albert F. Madlener House, is a 20th-century mansion located in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Madonna Della Strada Chapel

Madonna della Strada is a chapel on the campus of Loyola University Chicago in the neighborhood of Rogers Park, Chicago: it is named after the mother church of the Jesuit Province of Chicago (one of the largest Jesuit provinces).

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Manhattan Building (Chicago, Illinois)

The Manhattan Building is a 16-story building at 431 South Dearborn Street in Chicago, Illinois.

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Marie Schock House

The Marie Schock House is a Shingle Style house at 5749 West Race Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Marina City

Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois.

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Marquette Building (Chicago)

The Marquette Building, completed in 1895, is a Chicago landmark that was built by the George A. Fuller Company and designed by architects Holabird & Roche.

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Marshall Field and Company Building

The Marshall Field and Company Building, which now houses Macy's at State Street in Chicago, Illinois, was built in 1891-1892, and was the flagship location of Marshall Field and Company, and Marshall Field's chain of department stores.

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Mather Tower

Mather Tower (later Lincoln Tower, as designated on the Michigan–Wacker Historic District roster; now identified primarily by its address) is a Neo-Gothic, terra cotta-clad high-rise structure in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Mayor of Chicago

The Mayor of Chicago is the chief executive of Chicago, Illinois, the third-largest city in the United States.

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McCormick Row House District

The McCormick Row House District is a group of houses located in the Lincoln Park community area in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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McGraw-Hill Building (Chicago)

The McGraw-Hill Building was a 16-story, landmark building in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, at 520 N. Michigan Avenue.

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Medinah Temple

Built by the Shriners architects Huehl and Schmidt in 1912, the Medinah Temple is a colorful Islamic-looking building replete with pointed domes and an example of Moorish Revival architecture.

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Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church

Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, originally named the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, is a landmark church located on West Washington Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Michigan Avenue (Chicago)

Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago which runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid.

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Michigan Avenue Bridge

The Michigan Avenue Bridge (officially DuSable Bridge) is a bascule bridge that carries Michigan Avenue across the main stem of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Mid-North District

The Mid-North District or Midtown-North is a historic district in the Lincoln Park community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Milwaukee Avenue (Chicago)

Milwaukee Avenue is a street in the city of Chicago and the northern suburbs.

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Milwaukee-Diversey-Kimball District

The Milwaukee-Diversey-Kimball District is an official City of Chicago Landmark District straddling the Chicago community areas of Avondale and Logan Square at the gateway to the Polish Village.

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Monadnock Building

The Monadnock Building (historically the Monadnock Block; pronounced) is a skyscraper located at 53 West Jackson Boulevard in the south Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Montgomery Ward Company Complex

The Montgomery Ward Company Complex is the former national headquarters of Montgomery Ward, the United States' oldest mail order firm.

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Motif (visual arts)

In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.

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Motor Row District

The Motor Row District is a historic district in Chicago’s Near South Side community area.

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Mundelein College

Mundelein College was the last private, independent, Roman Catholic women's college in Illinois.

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Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI) is located in Chicago, Illinois, in Jackson Park, in the Hyde Park neighborhood between Lake Michigan and The University of Chicago.

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National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance.

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National Monument (United States)

A national monument in the United States is a protected area that is similar to a national park, but can be created from any land owned or controlled by the federal government by proclamation of the President of the United States.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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National preserve

A national preserve is a type of National Park Service protected area designated by the United States Congress that has characteristics normally associated with U.S. national parks but where certain natural resource-extractive activities such as fishing, hunting, mining, and oil/gas exploration and extraction are permitted.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Chicago

Currently there are 124 National Register of Historic Places listings in Central Chicago, out of 354 listings in the City of Chicago.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Chicago

There are more than 350 places listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places in Chicago, Illinois, including 83 historic districts that may include numerous historic buildings, structures, objects and sites.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in North Side Chicago

There are 92 sites in the National Register of Historic Places listings in North Side Chicago — of 362 listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago

There are 90 sites on the National Register of Historic Places listings in South Side Chicago — of more than 350 total listings within the City of Chicago, in Cook County, Illinois.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side Chicago

There are 66 sites in the National Register of Historic Places listings in West Side, Chicago, out of more than 350 listings in the City of Chicago.

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Navy Pier

Navy Pier is a pier on the Chicago shoreline of Lake Michigan.

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New Regal Theater

The "New Regal Theater" is now the Avalon Regal Theater.

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New York Life Insurance Building (Chicago)

The New York Life Insurance Building is a 14-story building at 39 South LaSalle Street in the Loop neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois.

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Nickerson House

The Samuel M. Nickerson House, located at 40 East Erie Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, is a Chicago Landmark.

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Noble–Seymour–Crippen House

The Noble–Seymour–Crippen House is a mansion located at 5624 North Newark Avenue in Chicago's Norwood Park community area.

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Nonbuilding structure

A nonbuilding structure, also referred to simply as a structure, refers to any body or system of connected parts used to support a load that was not designed for continuous human occupancy.

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North Kenwood District

The North Kenwood District is a historic district within the Kenwood community area of South Side, Chicago, Illinois.

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Northwestern University Settlement House

The Northwestern University Settlement House is an Arts and Crafts style house located at 1400 West Augusta Boulevard in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Oak Street (Chicago)

Oak Street is a short street in Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, adjacent to North Michigan Avenue.

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Oakland District

The Oakland District is a historic district in the Oakland community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Ogden Avenue

Ogden Avenue is a street extending from the Near West Side of Chicago to Naperville, Illinois.

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Old Chicago Water Tower District

The Old Chicago Water Tower District is a historic district along the Magnificent Mile shopping district in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Old Edgebrook District

Old Edgebrook is a historic district and neighborhood in the Forest Glen community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Old Town, Chicago

Old Town is a neighborhood and historic district in North Side, Chicago, Illinois, home to many of Chicago's older, Victorian-era buildings, including St. Michael's Church, one of seven buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire.

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Oliver Building (Chicago)

The Oliver Building is located at 159 N. Dearborn Street in Chicago within the Loop.

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One North LaSalle

The One North LaSalle Building or One LaSalle Street Building is a building in the LaSalle Street corridor in the Loop community area of Chicago.

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Oscar Stanton De Priest House

The Oscar Stanton De Priest House is a historic apartment building at 4536-4538 South Dr.

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Overton Hygienic Building

The Overton Hygienic Building is a Chicago Landmark and part of the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Page Brothers Building

The north facade facing Lake Street of the Page Brothers Building, 177-91 North State Street in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States, features the city's last remaining cast iron front.

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Palliser's Cottage Home No. 35

The Palliser's Cottage Home No.

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Palmolive Building

The Palmolive Building, formerly the Playboy Building, is a 37-storey Art Deco building at 919 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago.

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Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton Office and Studio

Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton Office and Studio is a brick and stone building located along the Magnificent Mile in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Pilgrim Baptist Church

Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historic church located on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, USA.

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Pittsfield Building

The Pittsfield Building, is a 38-story skyscraper located at 55 E. Washington Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States, that was the city's tallest building at the time of its completion.

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Planning permission

Planning permission or developmental approval refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation) in some jurisdictions.

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Political movement

In the social sciences, a political movement is a social group that operates together to obtain a political goal, on a local, regional, national, or international scope.

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Portage Theater

Located at Six Corners in the Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago's Northwest Side, the Portage Theater is one of the oldest movie houses in Chicago.

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Powhatan Apartments

The Powhatan or Powhatan Apartments is a 22-story luxury apartment building overlooking Lake Michigan and adjacent to Burnham Park in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Prairie Avenue

Prairie Avenue is a north–south street on the South Side of Chicago, which historically extended from 16th Street in the Near South Side community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States, to the city's southern limits and beyond.

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Prairie Avenue District

The Prairie Avenue District is a historic district in the Near South Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Preventive maintenance

Preventive maintenance or preventative maintenance (PM) has the following meanings.

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Printing House Row District

The Printing House Row District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing four architecturally important buildings on the 300 through 500 blocks of South Dearborn, South Federal and South Plymouth streets in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Pui Tak Center

The Pui Tak Center, formerly known as the On Leong Merchants Association Building, is a building located in Chicago's Chinatown.

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Pulaski Park (Chicago)

Pulaski Park is a park on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Pulaski Road (Chicago)

Pulaski Road is a major north-south street in the city of Chicago, at 4000 W., or exactly five miles west of State Street.

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Pullman National Monument

Pullman National Monument, also known as The Pullman District and Pullman Historic District, is located in Chicago and was the first model, planned industrial community in the United States.

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Quality (business)

In business, engineering, and manufacturing, quality has a pragmatic interpretation as the non-inferiority or superiority of something; it's also defined as being suitable for its intended purpose (fitness for purpose) while satisfying customer expectations.

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Quinn Chapel AME Church (Chicago)

Quinn Chapel AME Church, also known as Quinn Chapel of the A.M.E. Church, houses Chicago's oldest African-American congregation, formed by seven individuals as a nondenominational prayer group that met in the house of a member in 1844.

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R.R. Donnelley and Sons Co. Calumet Plant

The R.R Donnelley Printing Plant, sometimes known as the Calumet Plant or the Lakeside Plant and now known as the Lakeside Technology Center, was built between 1912 and 1929 to house the operations of the RR Donnelley printing company.

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Raber House

The Raber House is an Italianate style house located at 5760 South Lafayette Avenue in the Washington Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Race House

The Race House is an Italianate style house located at 3945 North Tripp Avenue in the Irving Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Randolph Street

Randolph Street is a street in Chicago.

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Randolph Tower

Randolph Tower, formerly known as the Steuben Club Building, is a historic Gothic Revival skyscraper in Downtown Chicago.

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Rath House

The Rath House is an architecturally significant house located at 2703 West Logan Boulevard in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Real estate

Real estate is "property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more generally) buildings or housing in general.

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Reebie Storage Warehouse

The Reebie Storage and Moving Co. was built for the Reebie Storage and Moving Co.

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Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building

The Reid, Murdoch & Co.

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Reliance Building

The Reliance Building is a skyscraper located at 1 W. Washington Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Richard J. Daley Center

The Richard J. Daley Center, also known by its courtyard Daley Plaza and named after longtime mayor Richard J. Daley, is the premier civic center of the City of Chicago in Illinois.

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Richard Nickel

Richard Stanley Nickel (May 31, 1928 – April 13, 1972) was a Polish American architectural photographer and historical preservationist, who was based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Richard Wright (author)

Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.

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Roanoke Building

11 South LaSalle Street Building or Eleven South LaSalle Street Building (formerly Roanoke Building and Tower and originally Lumber Exchange Building and Tower Addition or simply the Roanoke Building and Lumber Exchange Building) is a Chicago Landmark building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and that is located at 11 South LaSalle Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Robert A. Millikan House

The Robert A. Millikan House is a historic house at 5605 South Woodlawn Avenue in Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, Built about 1907, it was from about 1908 until 1921 the home of American physicist Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953), the period in which he made his most significant Nobel Prize winning work.

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Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy

Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy High School (LMSA) (simply known as Lindblom) is a public 4-year selective enrollment high school located in the West Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Public School system.

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Robert S. Abbott House

The Robert S. Abbott House is a historic house at 4742 South Martin Luther King Jr.

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Robie House

The Frederick C. Robie House is a U.S. National Historic Landmark on the campus of the University of Chicago in the South Side neighborhood of Hyde Park in Chicago, Illinois, at 5757 S. Woodlawn Avenue.

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Rockefeller Chapel

Rockefeller Chapel is a Gothic Revival chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.

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Roloson Houses

The Roloson Houses, also known as Robert Roloson Houses, are houses in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Rookery Building

The Rookery Building is a historic landmark, office building located at 209 South LaSalle Street in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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Roosevelt Road

Roosevelt Road (originally named 12th Street) is a major east-west street in the city of Chicago, Illinois, and its western suburbs.

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Rosehill Cemetery

Rosehill Cemetery (founded 1864) is an American Victorian-era cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and at, is the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago.

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Rush Street (Chicago)

Rush Street is a one-way street in the Near North Side community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

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S. A. Foster House and Stable

The Foster House and Stable is a Japanese-influenced house at 12147 South Harvard Avenue in the West Pullman neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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S. R. Crown Hall

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Scarcity

Scarcity refers to the limited availability of a commodity, which may be in demand in the market.

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Schlect House

The Schlect House is a Shingle Style house at 5804 West Race Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Schoenhofen Brewery Historic District

The Schoenhofen Brewery Historic District is centered on the former site of the Peter Schoenhofen Brewing Company at 18th and Canalport Avenue in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex

The Sears, Roebuck and Company Complex on the west side of Chicago, Illinois is where Sears, Roebuck conducted the bulk of its mail order operations between 1906 and 1993.

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Second Leiter Building

The Second Leiter Building, also known as the Leiter II Building, the Sears Building, One Congress Center, and Robert Morris Center, is located at the northeast corner of South State Street and East Congress Parkway in Chicago, Illinois.

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Second Presbyterian Church (Chicago)

Second Presbyterian Church is a landmark Gothic Revival church located on South Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Seven Houses on Lake Shore Drive District

The Seven Houses on Lake Shore Drive District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Shedd Aquarium

Shedd Aquarium (formally the John G. Shedd Aquarium) is an indoor public aquarium in Chicago, Illinois in the United States that opened on May 30, 1930.

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Shedd Park Fieldhouse

The Shedd Park Fieldhouse is the historic fieldhouse in Shedd Park, a public park in the South Lawndale community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Sheffield Avenue

Sheffield Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago, Illinois.

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Sheridan Road

Sheridan Road is a major north-south street that leads from Diversey Parkway in Chicago, Illinois, north to the Illinois-Wisconsin border and beyond to Racine.

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Sheridan Trust and Savings Bank Building

The Sheridan Trust and Savings Bank Building is a 12-story terra cotta building at 4753 North Broadway Avenue in Uptown, Chicago.

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Shoreland Hotel

The Shoreland is a historic hotel building in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Social

Living organisms including humans are social when they live collectively in interacting populations, whether they are aware of it, and whether the interaction is voluntary or involuntary.

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Soldiers' Home

The Soldiers' Home is an Italianate style house in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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South Shore Cultural Center

The South Shore Cultural Center, in Chicago, Illinois, is a cultural facility located at 71st Street and South Shore Drive, in the city's South Shore neighborhood.

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South Side Community Art Center

The South Side Community Art Center is a community art center in Chicago that opened in 1940 with support from the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project in Illinois.

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Spiegel (catalog)

Spiegel is an American direct marketing and catalog company.

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St. Charles Air Line Bridge

The St.

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St. Ignatius College Prep

Saint Ignatius College Prep is a selective private, coeducational Jesuit high school located in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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State Street (Chicago)

State Street is a large south-north street in Chicago, Illinois, USA and its south suburbs.

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Statue of The Republic

The Statue of The Republic is a gilded bronze sculpture in Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois.

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Stephen A. Douglas Tomb

The Stephen A. Douglas Tomb and Memorial or Stephen Douglas Monument Park is located at 636 E. 35th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois (part of the city's Douglas community), near the site of the Union Army and prisoner of war Camp Douglas.

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Sullivan Center

The Sullivan Center, formerly known as the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building or Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Store, is a commercial building at 1 South State Street at the corner of East Madison Street in Chicago, Illinois.

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Sunset Cafe

The Sunset Cafe, also known as The Grand Terrace Cafe, was a jazz club in Chicago, Illinois operating during the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s.

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Supply and demand

In microeconomics, supply and demand is an economic model of price determination in a market.

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Supreme Life Building

The Supreme Life Building is a historic insurance building located at 3501 S. Dr.

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Sydney Kent House

The Kent House, also known as Sydney Kent House or St.

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Symphony Center

Symphony Center is a music complex located at 220 South Michigan Avenue in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Thalia Hall (Chicago)

Thalia Hall is a historic building in Pilsen, Chicago which is currently a mixed-use music, retail, and bar/restaurant space.

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The Arc at Old Colony

The Arc at Old Colony (Old Colony Building until 2015) is 17-story landmark building in the Chicago Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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The Blackstone Hotel

The Blackstone Hotel is a historic 21-story hotel located on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Balbo Drive in the Michigan Boulevard Historic District in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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The Palmer House Hilton

The Palmer House Hilton is a historic hotel in Chicago in the city's Loop area.

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Theurer-Wrigley House

Theurrer-Wrigley House, also known as the Wrigley Mansion, is a historic building located in the Lincoln Park area of Chicago, United States.

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Third Unitarian Church

The Third Unitarian Church (commonly abbreviated as "TUC") is a Unitarian Universalist church in the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Three Arts Club of Chicago

The Three Arts Club of Chicago was a Chicago home and club for women in the "three arts" of music, painting and drama.

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Tree Studio Building and Annexes

The Tree Studio Building and Annexes was an artist colony established in Chicago, Illinois in 1894 by Judge Lambert Tree and his wife, Anne Tree.

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Tribune Tower

The Tribune Tower is a neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Turzak House

The Turzak House is a house located at 7059 North Olcott Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Ukrainian Village District

The Ukrainian Village District is a landmark-designated district of residential buildings within the West Town community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Union Stock Yard Gate

The Union Stock Yard Gate, located on Exchange Avenue at Peoria Street, was the entrance to the famous Union Stock Yards in Chicago.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Numbered Highway System

The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States.

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United States Secretary of the Interior

The United States Secretary of the Interior is the head of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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Unity Hall

Unity Hall is a historic building located at 3140 S. Indiana Ave.

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Uptown Theatre (Chicago)

Uptown Theatre (also known as Balaban and Katz Uptown Theatre) is a massive, ornate movie palace located in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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Urban renewal

Urban renewal (also called urban regeneration in the United Kingdom, urban renewal or urban redevelopment in the United States) is a program of land redevelopment in cities, often where there is urban decay.

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Value (ethics)

In ethics, value denotes the degree of importance of some thing or action, with the aim of determining what actions are best to do or what way is best to live (normative ethics), or to describe the significance of different actions.

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Vassar Swiss Underwear Company Building

The Vassar Swiss Underwear Company Building is an industrial loft building located at 2545 West Diversey Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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Victory Monument (Chicago)

The Victory Monument, created by sculptor Leonard Crunelle, was built to honor the Eighth Regiment of the Illinois National Guard, an African-American unit that served in France during World War I. It is located in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Villa District

The Villa District, also known as Villa Historic District, (Polskie Wille) is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Village Theatre

Village Theatre is a major regional theatre located in the Seattle Metropolitan Area.

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Virgin Hotels Chicago

The Virgin Hotels Chicago (formerly Old Dearborn Bank Building or 203 North Wabash Avenue) is a historic building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, that has been converted from use as an office building to use as a hotel run via a mobile app based business model.

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Wabash Avenue YMCA

The Wabash Avenue YMCA is a Chicago Landmark located within the Chicago Landmark Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District in the Douglas community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Wacker Drive

Wacker Drive is a major multilevel street in Chicago, Illinois, running along the south side of the main branch and the east side of the south branch of the Chicago River in the Loop.

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Waller Apartments

The Edward C. Waller Apartments are located from 2840 to 2858 W. Walnut Street in Chicago, Illinois.

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Walter Burley Griffin Place District

The Walter Burley Griffin Place District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Warwick Allerton - Chicago

The Warwick Allerton - Chicago (formerly Allerton Hotel and Warwick Allerton Hotel Chicago and Allerton Crowne Plaza Hotel) is a 25-story hotel skyscraper on the Magnificent Mile in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Washington Block

Washington Block is a Chicago Landmark building located in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Washington Park Court District

The Washington Park Court District is a Grand Boulevard community area neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Washington Square Park (Chicago)

Washington Square, also known as Washington Square Park, is a park in Chicago, Illinois.

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Wells Street (Chicago)

Wells Street is a main North–South street in downtown Chicago.

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Wendell Phillips Academy High School

Wendell Phillips Academy High School is a public 4–year high school located in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Western Avenue (Chicago)

Western Avenue is the longest continuous street within the city of Chicago at in length.

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Wheeler–Kohn House

The Wheeler-Kohn House is a Queen Anne and Second Empire Style house in the Near South Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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Whistle Stop Inn

The Whistle Stop Inn is a two-story building in Chicago, Illinois that has held a variety of businesses.

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Wicker Park District

The Wicker Park District is a historic district in the West Town community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Wigwam (Chicago)

The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention.

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William and Jessie M. Adams House

The William and Jessie M. Adams House is a Prairie school style house located at 9326 South Pleasant Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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Wingert House

The Wingert House is a nineteenth-century farmhouse located at 6231 North Canfield Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

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Woman's Athletic Club

Woman's Athletic Club is a historic building located along the Magnificent Mile in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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Work of art

A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.

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Wrigley Field

Wrigley Field is a baseball park located on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.

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Yale Apartments

The seven story Yale Apartments, also known as The Yale, is an important "first generation" residential high-rise, a building type made possible by advances in building structure and technology, and reflects the great growth in real estate development which typified the city in the 1890s.

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300 West Adams Building

The 300 West Adams Building (a.k.a. 300 West Adams Street Office Building) exemplifies several themes in the development of Chicago's Central Area.

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330 North Wabash

330 North Wabash (formerly IBM Plaza also known as IBM Building and now renamed AMA Plaza) is a skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States, at 330 N. Wabash Avenue, designed by famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (who died in 1969 before construction began).

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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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35 East Wacker

35 East Wacker, also known as the Jewelers' Building, on the 35 East Wacker Drive website.

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42nd Precinct / Town Hall Police Station

The 42nd Precinct/Town Hall Police Station, located in Chicago's Lake View community area, is one of the oldest and most architecturally significant extant historic police station buildings in Chicago.

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860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments

860–880 Lake Shore Drive is a twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment towers on N. Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.

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