The Century Tower Condominiums, formerly known as the Trustees System Service Building, is a historic building located at 182 West Lake Street in the...
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The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The building, named for Donald Trump, was designed...
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Century Tower may refer to: Century Tower (Beaumont) in Beaumont, Texas, U.S. Century Tower (Chicago) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Century Tower (Sydney)...
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international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-century architecture. Built for Chicago Tribune owner Robert R. McCormick, since...
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The Century Plaza Towers are two 44-story, 571-foot (174 m) twin towers in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. They are the tallest...
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the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but Chicago's population continued...
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The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110-story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community...
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fourth-tallest building in Chicago, surpassed in height by Willis Tower, Trump International Hotel and Tower, and St Regis Chicago. The building is managed...
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Skyscraper (redirect from Office tower)
residential Towers of 12th century Bologna numbered between 80 and 100 at a time, the tallest of which is the 97.2 m (319 ft) high Asinelli Tower. A Florentine...
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2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Sharon Stangenes (April 2, 2005), Understated tower makes for fine homes, Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2011-12-29 v t e...
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design, an 18-story octagonal tower atop a more conventional 24-story rectangular "box." Briefly the tallest building in Chicago at the time of its completion...
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destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 (an exception being the Water Tower). Chicago's architectural styles include the Chicago School primarily in...
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The Metropolitan Tower is a skyscraper located at 310 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago's Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Loop community area in...
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Water Tower Place is a large urban, mixed-use development comprising a 758,000 sq ft (70,400 m2) shopping mall in a 74-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois...
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Eiffel Tower was the world's tallest structure from 1889, when it was built, but not the tallest building. The skyscraper was invented in Chicago in 1884...
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Water Tower near Collinsville, Illinois Chicago Water Tower in Chicago, Illinois Florence Y'all Water Tower in Florence, Kentucky Lawson Tower in Scituate...
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Central Park Tower, 432 Park Avenue, 111 West 57th Street, and Chicago's Willis Tower, which was formerly and is still commonly known as Sears Tower. Tribune...
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The Loop (CTA) (redirect from Loop (Chicago Transit Authority))
its name to Chicago's downtown, which is also known as the Loop. Transit began to appear in Chicago in the latter half of the 19th century as the city...
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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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Adrian Smith (architect) (category Architects from Chicago)
International Hotel & Tower in Chicago, the Jin Mao Tower in Shanghai, and Zifeng Tower in Nanjing. Adrian Smith was born in Chicago in 1944. When he was four...
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Streeterville (redirect from Streeterville, Chicago)
of early 20th century luxury apartments, sits on the northern edge of the district opposite Lake Michigan. The Old Chicago Water Tower District is located...
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and CME Group's Chicago Board of Trade and Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Aon Corporation maintains an office in the Aon Center. Chase Tower houses the headquarters...
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Trump Tower Manila, also known as Trump Tower at Century City, is a residential building located in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. The building is...
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many other Chicago streets, it exists in several disjointed segments. As the home of the Chicago Water Tower, the Art Institute of Chicago, Millennium...
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been termed historically "moonlight towers," a term that dates to the mid-20th century. The light from the towers was compared to moonlight, after they...
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floor space. It is located two blocks east of the Chicago River and northeast of the Willis Tower with a main address of 227 West Monroe Street and an...
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near the tower. A large market, the Sukharevka, bustled around the tower in the 19th century. In 1921 the Soviet government turned the tower into the...
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Leaning Tower of Niles, Study Says", Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 16, 2014. Gaines, Lee V. (November 20, 2016). "Village Intends to Buy Leaning Tower of...
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but the S. C. Johnson & Son Inc. Administration Building and Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, was eventually removed. A 2015 bid for inscription...
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tenants. Williams Tower was named "Skyscraper of the Century" in the December 1999 issue of Texas Monthly magazine. Paul Gapp of the Chicago Tribune said that...
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