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Marshall Field and Company Building
Daniel Burnham’s State Street department store (1892–1914), crowned by the largest Tiffany Favrile glass mosaic dome of its…
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Mather Tower (1928), East Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois
Rising above the Chicago River on East Wacker Drive since 1928, the Mather Tower is the finest example…
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Merchandise Mart (1930), Chicago
For thirteen years after it opened, no building on earth enclosed more floor space than this Art Deco…
Illinois · Building
Monadnock Building
The 1891–93 Chicago office block that pushed brick load-bearing walls to their limit, just as the steel skyscraper…
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Music Box Theatre (1929), North Southport Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
The Music Box Theatre has operated continuously as an independent movie theater in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood since 1929,…
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One North LaSalle Street Building (1930), 1 North LaSalle Street, Chicago Loop, Illinois
A 49-story Art Deco tower at the intersection of LaSalle and Madison Streets in the Chicago Loop —…
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Palmolive Building (1929), 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Anchoring the north end of the Magnificent Mile since 1929, the Palmolive Building once carried a rotating searchlight…
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Pittsfield Building (1927), Chicago
Completed in 1927 at the corner of Washington Street and Wabash Avenue in the Loop, the Pittsfield Building…
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Reliance Building
An 1895 Chicago skyscraper sheathed almost entirely in glass and white terracotta, a forerunner of the glass tower.
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