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17-80060. Website. www .westchicago .org. West Chicago is a city in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 25,614 at the 2020 census. It was formerly named Junction and later Turner, after its founder, John B. Turner, president of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad (G&CU) in 1855. [ 3] The city was initially established ...
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970 as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
The Near West Side, one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, is on the West Side, west of the Chicago River and adjacent to the Loop. The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 started on the Near West Side. Waves of immigration shaped the history of the Near West Side of Chicago, including the founding of Hull House, a prominent settlement house. [ 3]
760,000 sq ft. Design and construction. Architect (s) Holabird & Roche. The City Hall-County Building, commonly known as City Hall, is a 12-story building in Chicago, Illinois that houses the seats of government of the City of Chicago and Cook County. [ 1][ 2] The building's west side (City Hall, 121 N. LaSalle St.) [ 3] holds the offices of ...
The Franklin Center is a 60-story supertall skyscraper in the Loop neighborhood of downtown Chicago. Completed in 1989 as the AT&T Corporate Center to consolidate the central region headquarters of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T), [ 2] it stands at a height of 1,007 ft (307 m) and contains 1.7 million sq ft (160,000 m 2) of ...
The James R. Thompson Center (JRTC), originally the State of Illinois Center, is a postmodern -style civic building designed by architect Helmut Jahn, located at 100 W. Randolph Street in the Loop district of Chicago. Designed with a post-modernist rotunda, it was built to house offices of the Illinois state government in the most populated ...
West Town. Intersection of Division Street, Ashland Avenue, and Milwaukee Avenue in West Town. / 41.900°N 87.6800°W / 41.900; -87.6800. West Town, northwest of the Loop on Chicago 's West Side, is one of the city's officially designated community areas. Much of this area was historically part of Polish Downtown, along Western Avenue ...
Richard J. Daley Center. / 41.88393; -87.63020. The Richard J. Daley Center, also known by its open courtyard Daley Plaza and named after longtime mayor Richard J. Daley, is the premier civic center of the City of Chicago in Illinois. The Center's modernist skyscraper primarily houses offices and courtrooms for the Cook County Circuit Courts ...