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Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station
The Water Tower and Pumping Stat...
Chicago Pedway System
Underneath the Chicago Cultural Center is one of many entr...
The 1909 Plan of Chicago
In 1909, Daniel Burnham, Edward ...
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
On the evening of Sunday, Octobe...
Chicago Portage National Historical Site
The Chicago Portage National His...
Pneumatic Tubes at the Chicago Federal Building
A network of tunnels for pneum...
Chicago Bee Building
Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chica...
Old Chicago Public Library (Chicago Cultural Center)
Influenced by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the f...
Chicago and North Western Depot
Packers Heritage Trail
The Chicago & North Wes...
Chicago Bee Building
Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chica...
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Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station
The Water Tower and Pumping Station buildings were constructed in the late 1860s to collect and distribute municipal water. These structures supported the new two-mile long intake tunnel, which was built underneath Lake Michigan to draw clean water ...
Chicago Pedway System
Underneath the Chicago Cultural Center is one of many entrances to Chicago's extensive Pedway System, a collection of above- and below-ground passageways reserved for Chicago walkers who want to avoid packed sidewalks and unpleasant weather. The pedway's tunnels run underneath ...
The 1909 Plan of Chicago
In 1909, Daniel Burnham, Edward Bennett, and the Commercial Club of Chicago released thePlan of Chicago, an urban planning initiative dedicated to beautifying the city and redesigning it to better accommodate growth. Chicago's business clubs ...
The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
On the evening of Sunday, October 8, 1871, the cry of fire rang out onDeKovenStreet. Catherine and Patrick O'Leary's barn went up in flames, beginning what would be one of the most important events ...
Chicago Portage National Historical Site
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site marks the overland path used byvoyageursto travel between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds. The portage connected the south fork of the Chicago River with the Des ...
Pneumatic Tubes at the Chicago Federal Building
A network of tunnels for pneumatic mail-transport tubes once buzzed with activity under the block now occupied by Chicago’s John C. Kluczynski Federal Building, Post Office, and Plaza. The post office housed in the old Chicago Federal Building, which ...
Chicago Bee Building
Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chicago, entrepreneur Anthony Overton commissioned his second building in this commercial district for the offices of the Chicago Bee, an African American newspaper he founded in 1926. Ironically enough, soon after ...
Old Chicago Public Library (Chicago Cultural Center)
Influenced by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, the first permanent home of the Chicago Public Library was designed in the Beaux Arts style by the Boston architectural firm of Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge. It was constructed between 1893 and 1897 ...
Chicago and North Western Depot
Packers Heritage Trail
The Chicago & North Western Depot was the Packer's usual port of call for road trips over nearly four decades. And often those trips started or ended, or both, with a party thrown by the team's ever-faithful ...
Chicago Bee Building
Confident in the vitality of the Black Metropolis of Chicago, entrepreneur Anthony Overton commissioned his second building in this commercial district for the offices of the Chicago Bee, an African American newspaper he founded in 1926.
Ironically enough, soon after ...
