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Since the morning of October 11, 1897, this spectacular room has served visitors in pursuit of inspiration, information, and enlightenment. Preston Bradley Hall was originally designed as the place where the Chicago Public Library’s extensive volumes were delivered to patrons. The Tiffany Glass & Decorating Comp...
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When you step inside the Palmer House, you enter one of the finest, most service-oriented hotels in the world. Recognized for over a century as a Chicago landmark, the Palmer House is in a class above any hotel built today. Along with the state-of-the-art features, the hotel's historic, turn-of-the-century charm and am...
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Considered one of the finest in the world, the Art Institute of Chicago's collection of European painting consists of more than 3,500 works dating from the 12th through the mid-20th centuries. This particular room, Gallery 222, contains a stellar collection of 19th-century European paintings, including Édouard Manet's...
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Buddy Guy’s Legends is the only place in Chicago to experience the finest in blues seven nights a week, enjoy authentic Cajun soul food and behold a major archive of blues memorabilia. Voted "Best Blues Club" several times over by Living Blues Magazine, Citysearch and AOL, Legends continues to be a mecca f...
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The Fern Room at the 100-year old Garfield Park Conservatory is both an historical and botanical treasure. Conceived by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen as a “landscape under glass,” the room, shows what an Illinois landscape might have looked like millions of years ago. Jensen’s artistic stonework sets...
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The Jay Pritzker Pavilion stands 120-feet high, with a billowing headdress of brushed stainless steel ribbons that frame the stage opening and connect to an overhead trellis of crisscrossing steel pipes. The trellis supports the sound system, which spans the 4,000 fixed seats and the Great Lawn, which accommodates ...
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Designed by Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and opened in 1956, Illinois Institute of Technology’s Crown Hall appropriately houses the schools College of Architecture. “An early example of a large clear-span structure, Crown Hall is a column-free, flexible space, 120 feet by 220 feet, with an 18-foot high ceiling in its ...
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Chicago’s Historic Water Tower, made of Joliet Limestone blocks quarried in Illinois, was built in 1869 and used to control water surges in the area. It is best known for being one of the few buildings to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and has become a symbol of Chicago and a memorial to the victims of the G...
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This 102 ft. long sculpture made of reinforced concrete was installed in Chicago’s Washington Park in 1922. Over the years, the changing seasons of Chicago eroded much of the sculpture’s original detail. The sculpture, which depicts Father Time watching a parade of 100 humans, was renovated and restored in 2002. ...
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Opened in 2003, Illinois Institute of Technology’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center was designed by Rem Koolhaas. An integral component of Koolhaas’ design is the stainless steel clad tube seen here. The tube surrounds 530 feet of the Chicago Transit Authority’s Green Line and was designed to lessen the noise ge...
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