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The Loop, one of Chicago's 77 designated community areas, is the central business district of the city and is the main section of Downtown Chicago.Home to Chicago's commercial core, it is the second largest commercial business district in North America after Midtown Manhattan in New York City [citation needed], and contains the headquarters and regional offices of several global and national ...
Chicago-Sanitary-and-Ship-Canal, during construction Map of the business portion of Chicago. 1900 Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal opens; [29] the Chicago River is completely reversed. Municipal Reference Library active (approximate date). [30] Labor strike of machinists. [9] Population: 1,698,575. [1]
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
In January 1858, the first masonry building in Chicago to be thus raised—a four-story, 70-foot-long (21 m), 750-ton (680 metric tons) brick structure situated at the north-east corner of Randolph Street and Dearborn Street—was lifted on two hundred jackscrews to its new grade, which was 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) higher than the old one, “without the slightest injury to the building.” [9 ...
The Marshall Field and Company Building is a National Historic Landmark retail building on State Street in Chicago, Illinois. Now housing Macy's State Street, the Beaux-Arts and Commercial style complex was designed by architect Daniel Burnham and built in two stages—north end in 1901–02 (including columned entrance) and south end in 1905–06.
Rookery Building. / 41.879083°N 87.632111°W / 41.879083; -87.632111. The Rookery Building is a historic office building located at 209 South LaSalle Street in the Chicago Loop. Completed by architects Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root of Burnham and Root in 1888, it is considered one of their masterpiece buildings, and was once ...
The Loop. The Loop (historically Union Loop) is the 1.79-mile-long (2.88 km) circuit of elevated rail that forms the hub of the Chicago "L" system in the United States. As of 2022, the branch served 31,893 passengers every weekday. [ 2] The Loop is so named because the elevated tracks loop around a rectangle formed by Lake Street (north side ...
The West Loop–LaSalle Street Historic District is a historic district centered on LaSalle Street in the western Chicago Loop. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 1, 2013. [ 1] A boundary increase on July 24, 2017, added two buildings at 330 S. Wells Street and 212 W. Van Buren Street to the district. [ 2]