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Two North Riverside Plaza was designed by Holabird & Root as the headquarters of the Chicago Daily News. It was completed in 1929. Regarded as one of Chicago's premier Art Deco edifices, it was also groundbreaking in its urban design, with several firsts to its credit: • First in Chicago to have air rights over railroad tracks • First in America with an open-air plaza • First to take advantage of the Chicago riverfront as a visual and commercial. asset. The Chicago Daily News ceased operations in 1978 and the building has simply been known by its address since. The ramped concourse on the building's south side, which was originally the main lobby, now serves as the main entrance of the Ogilvie Transportation Center (formerly known as the Chicago & North Western Terminal). #Chicago #ChiTown #DowntownChicago #ArtDeco #Skyscraper #Modernism #ChiArchitecture #Chitecture #HolabirdandRoot #archi_ologie #BrickStory #ChicagoHome #VisitChiTown #EnjoyIllinois #ThisPlaceMatters (at Two North Riverside Plaza) https://www.instagram.com/p/COStl8Hjnw2/?igshid=92a4ka4r8gji

The white terra cotta clad, Second Empire-style building at 1925 South Michigan Avenue, designed by Christian Albert Eckstorm, was built for the B. F. Goodrich Company as a showroom. The building is a part of the Motor Row Historic District, a collection of early 20th century structures built for the burgeoning automobile industry. Imagine buying tires here? #Chicago #ChiTown #SouthsideChicago #NearSouthSide #SouthLoop #MichiganAvenue #SouthMichiganAvenue #SecondEmpire #FrenchRenaissanceRevival #ChiArchitecture #Chitecture #archi_ologie #MansardMonday #ChicagoHome #VisitChiTown #EnjoyIllinois #ThisPlaceMatters (at B.F. Goodrich Company Showroom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFGk3jpju0t/?igshid=1vcwwzxnlx7jv

Chicago's Nine Dragon Wall at 170 West Cermak Road and South Wentworth Avenue was built in 2003-04 and funded by the Chinatown Chamber of Commerce. Made of glazed tile from, China, it is a miniature replica of the Nine Dragon Wall in Beihei Park in Beijing, built in 1402, one of several constructed during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Chicago's dragon wall is one of 3 located outside of China. The dragon and the number 9 are strongly tied together in Chinese culture. Of course, for thousands of years, the dragon has been a symbol of everything that is sacred and spiritual, while 9 represents good fortune. 🐉 #Chicago #ChinatownChicago #SouthSideChicago #ChineseArchitecture #ChiArchitecture #Chitecture #ChineseCulture #CermakRoad #WentworthAvenue #archi_ologie #ChicagoHome #VisitChiTown #EnjoyIllinois #ThisPlaceMatters (at Nine Dragon Wall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_K3faADAne/?igshid=st27yx052n3c

The Great Hall of Chicago Union Station, Part II: Electric Boogaloo In 2019, a $22 million restoration, funded by Amtrak, was completed. It rehabbed the skylight, which had plagued with drainage issues, restored original materials and added proper lighting to the Beaux-Arts interior. #Chicago #WestLoop #NearWestSide #BeauxArts #Neoclassical #DanielBurnham #GrahamAndersonProbstWhite #SouthCanalStreet #archi_ologie #BrickStory #ChicagoHome #VisitChiTown #EnjoyIllinois #ThisPlaceMatters (at Chicago Union Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9oyd0Ul8QE/?igshid=k5t2hx9muv4h

The Great Hall at Chicago Union Station, Part I Union Station's main waiting room, known as the Great Hall, more than lives up to its name. Roman travertine walls, Corinthian columns and brass lamps are just some of the features that make this one of the country's greatest interior spaces. Two female allegorical figures - one holding an owl, representing Night and the other holding a rooster, representing Day - flank the entrance to one of the corridors. They were designed by Henry Hering. The centerpiece of the Great Hall, however, is no doubt the barrel-vaulted skylight spans 219 feet across the ceiling and is 115 feet above the room. During World War II, the skylight was blacked out in order to make the building less of an a target for attacks by enemies. #Chicago #WestLoop #NearWestSide #BeauxArts #Neoclassical #DanielBurnham #GrahamAndersonProbstWhite #SouthCanalStreet #archi_ologie #BrickStory #ChicagoHome #VisitChiTown #EnjoyIllinois #ThisPlaceMatters (at Chicago Union Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/B814sg2FOpa/?igshid=py652mtfncod

1900 South Prairie Avenue was built in 1870 for banker/merchant, Elbridge Gerry Keith. It was designed by Jonathan W. Roberts. The facade is made of Joliet limestone. The mansard roof was added a decade later, giving the home its French Second Empire appearance. South Prairie Avenue was once Chicago's most fashionable residential locale, with several affluent families erecting mansions - Pullman, Field, Armour, Glessner and Kimball, among others. Starting with businessman Potter Palmer in 1882, South Prairie Avenue was abandoned for what would become the luxurious Gold Coast district. As a result of South Prairie's decline, only a few of the many urban palaces that once lined its blocks remain. #Chicago #ChiTown #SouthSideChicago #NearSouthSide #SouthLoop #SouthPrairieAvenue #SecondEmpire #FrenchRenaissanceRevival #VictorianArchitecture #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #casasecasarios #houses_ofthe_world #beautifulhouseoldandnew #MansardMonday #TheAmericanHome #houseportrait #BrickStory #ChicagoHome #VisitChiTown #EnjoyIllinois #ThisPlaceMatters (at Keith House Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ityodF2Oc/?igshid=1rjw3rdybhk6g

Just as brownstones are synonymous with New York and other East Coast cities, greystones are to the landscape of Chicago. They started popping up in the city in the 1890s and were designed primarily in the Romanesque Revival or Neoclassical styles. This building is located at the corner of West 31st and South Prairie Avenue. #Chicago #ChiTown #SouthsideChicago #BridgeportChicago #Greystone #VernacularArchitecture #archi_ologie #oldhouselove #casasecasarios #houses_ofthe_world #beautifulhouseoldandnew #TheAmericanHome #houseportrait #BrickStory #ChicagoHome #VisitChiTown #EnjoyIllinois #ThisPlaceMatters (at Bridgeport, Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2sIujeFSVw/?igshid=rfmjj9csjqy1

Chicago's oldest-surviving White Castle building is located at the corner of East Cermak Road and South Wabash Avenue. Built in 1930, it was the 16th location built in the city by the White Castle System of Eating Houses, Inc. It was designed by local architect Lewis E. Russell, along with Lloyd W. Ray, White Castle's construction superintendent, who was responsible for all the building designs of the late '20s and '30s. This white glazed brick structure was inspired Chicago's landmark water tower. The White Castle System of Eating Houses was founded in Wichita, Kansas in 1921 by hamburger stand proprietor J. Walter "Walt" Anderson and Edgar Waldo "Billy" Ingram, a real estate and insurance agent. The company was the first fast-food hamburger chain and responsible for changing the perception of the hamburger, which had been viewed (and rightfully so) as "carnival food" due to questionable quality, in part fueled by Upton Sinclair's seminal book, The Jungle, which exposed the deplorable working conditions of the meatpacking industry, which was centered in...Chicago. White Castle #16 was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2011. #Chicago #ChiTown #SouthsideChicago #NearSouthSide #SouthLoop #ArtDeco #Modernism #ProgrammaticArchitecture #archi_ologie #ModMondayz #BrickStory #thedecodarling #ChicagoHome #VisitChiTown #EnjoyIllinois #ThisPlaceMatters #WhiteCastle (at White Castle No. 16) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0YuvMuFpRL/?igshid=1m6zmhjt4qcti