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Tribune Tower - Chicago, Illinois
Tribune Tower - Chicago, Illinois The Tribune Tower was completed in 1925 and reaches a height of 141 meters. The tower has been modeled after the Button Tower of the Rouen Cathedral in France. With its decorative buttresses at the top, the Chicago Tribune Tower remains a remarkable architectural monument.
Navy Pier Chicago - Chicago, Illinois
Navy Pier Chicago - Chicago, Illinois - Navy Pier offers endless entertainment and attractions to Chicagoans and their guests of all ages. There is always something happening at Navy Pier, Chicago’s lakefront playground. Offering visitors more than 50 acres of parks, promenades, gardens, shops, restaurants and attractions.
Chinatown Chicago - Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Chinatown is located between Canal Street and Lake Shore Drive from the Stevenson Expressway north to the Santa Fe railroad yards. This unique far eastern charm offers dozens of Chinese and Cantonese restaurants, bakeries, bookstores, and gift shops, as well as a great place to watch the parade on Chinese New Year.
Buckingham Memorial Fountain - Chicago, Illinois
Buckingham Memorial Fountain - Chicago, Illinois The Fountain is the centerpiece of Grant Park, the city’s grand "front yard," and is set within a handsomely landscaped garden, one of the city’s finest examples of a Beaux-Arts-style landscape design.
Water Tower Place - Chicago, Illinois
Water Tower Place - Chicago, Illinois Water Tower Place is Chicago’s premier shopping destination. Its stunning eight-level atrium features more than 100 of your favorite stores and restaurants plus a mix of distinctive specialty shops and boutiques.
Harold Washington Library - Chicago, Illinois
Harold Washington Library - Chicago, Illinois first opened on January 1, 1873. Is a public library, one of Chicago’s premier cultural and educational institutions.
Today there are 79 locations of the Library which are a source of books, periodicals, newspapers and information in multiple languages.
Magnificent Mile - Chicago, Illinois
Magnificent Mile - Chicago, Illinois All the big names in shopping are present here, from Disney and Niketown to Bloomingdales and Saks Fifth Avenue. The areas around the Magnificent Mile are some of Chicago’s wealthiest.
Lincoln Park Zoo - Chicago, Illinois
Lincoln Park Zoo - Chicago, Illinois with it’s beautiful architectural and modern facilities offer both the visiting public and the animals that make the zoo their home glad they are there.
Established in 1868, the zoo is among the oldest zoological gardens in the country. Lincoln Park Zoo stands as one of the last free major cultural institutions in the United States and the only one left in Chicago.
Wrigley Field - Chicago, Illinois
Wrigley Field is the second-oldest ballpark in the majors behind Boston’s Fenway Park (1912). Wrigley Field opened: April 23, 1914 and the
First Cubs game was on April 20, 1916.
The original owner of the Cubs was Charlie Weeghman (1914-1916).
Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District - Chicago, Illinois
Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District - Chicago, Illinois. "Bronzeville," was first known as "Black Metropolis," the area in Chicago that was developed and occupied by the African American’s fleeing the oppression of the South.
There are 9 structures left of this era. Developed during the first decades of the 20th century, this "city-within-a-city" was home to numerous nationally prominent, African-American-owned and -operated businesses and cultural institutions.
