Chicago Buildings Map

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• The Rookery: Chicago's Office Building Between Two Architectural Ages
  209 S LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL 60604
• Chicago Cultural Center: How a Public Library Became the People's Palace
  78 E Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602
• Why Does Tribune Tower Look Like a Medieval Tower?
  435 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
• The Wrigley Building: A Chewing-Gum Company Gives Michigan Avenue a Landmark
  400-410 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
• Willis Tower: The Engineering Behind Chicago's Sears Tower
  233 S Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606
• The Marquette Building: Chicago's Steel Skyscraper and the Story in Its Lobby
  140 S Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60603
• The Monadnock Building: Chicago's Last Great Masonry Skyscraper
  53 W Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604
• The Reliance Building: Chicago's Glass Skyscraper, Built in Two Stages
  1 W Washington Street, Chicago, IL 60602
• Chicago Union Station: Burnham's Plan and the Great Hall
  225 S Canal Street, Chicago, IL 60606
• The Auditorium Building: Adler & Sullivan's Theater, Hotel and Office Tower
  430 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
• The Chicago Board of Trade Building: The Art Deco Tower at the End of LaSalle Street
  141 W Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL 60604
• Marshall Field and Company Building: How a State Street Department Store Became a Landmark
  111 N State Street, Chicago, IL 60602
• The Carbide & Carbon Building: Chicago's Green and Gold Art Deco Tower
  230 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60601
• The Merchandise Mart: How Marshall Field Built the World's Largest Building
  222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL 60654
• The Palmer House: Chicago's Wedding-Gift Hotel and Its Troubled Ownership
  17 E Monroe Street, Chicago, IL 60603
• Why Does the John Hancock Center Have a Giant X on Its Side?
  875 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
• Marina City: The Corncob Towers and Chicago's City Within a City
  300 N State Street, Chicago, IL 60654
• The Chicago Theatre: How a 1921 Movie Palace Became the City's Marquee
  175 N State Street, Chicago, IL 60601
• The Art Institute of Chicago Building: A World's Fair Hall That Became a Museum
  111 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603
• The Chicago Water Tower: The Limestone Landmark That Survived the Fire
  806 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
• The Green Mill: What Is Documented About Uptown's Jazz Club and the Gangsters, and What Is Legend
  4802 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640
• The Biograph Theater: The Lincoln Avenue Movie House Where John Dillinger Was Shot
  2433 N Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614
• Why Is the Civic Opera Building Shaped Like a Giant Chair?
  20 N Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606
• The Robie House: How Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Masterpiece Escaped Demolition
  5757 S Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
• Harold Washington Library Center: Chicago's Owl-Topped Central Library
  400 S State Street, Chicago, IL 60605
• Sullivan Center: Louis Sullivan's Last Great Store, From Schlesinger & Mayer to Target
  1 S State Street, Chicago, IL 60603
• The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry: The White City's Last Palace
  5700 S DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60637
• Navy Pier: From Municipal Pier to the People's Pier
  600 E Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
• The Field Museum: From Fair Leftovers to a Marble Palace on the Lakefront
  1400 S DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
• The Chicago Federal Center: Mies van der Rohe's Plaza, and the Courthouse Where the Government Got Capone
  219-230 S Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604
• The Old Chicago Main Post Office: From Mail-Order Giant to Gensler Rebirth
  433 W Van Buren Street, Chicago, IL 60607
• The Drake Hotel: A Century at the Top of the Magnificent Mile
  140 E Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60611
• 35 East Wacker: The Jewelers Building and Its Elevators for Cars
  35 E Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60601
• Soldier Field: A Century of Crowds on the Lakefront, and an Uncertain Home Game
  1410 Special Olympics Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
• Thalia Hall: Pilsen's Bohemian Opera House, Silent for Decades and Loud Again
  1807 S Allport Street, Chicago, IL 60608
• Wrigley Field: The 1914 Ballpark That Outlived Its Own League
  1060 W Addison Street, Chicago, IL 60613
• Pullman: The Factory Town George Pullman Built, and the Strike That Ended It
  610 E 111th Street, Chicago, IL 60628
• 2120 South Michigan Avenue: The Little Building Where Chess Records Cut the Blues
  2120 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60616
• The Home Insurance Building: Chicago's 'First Skyscraper' and the Plaque It Left Behind
  Northeast corner, LaSalle Street & Adams Street, Chicago, IL 60603
• The Thompson Center: Helmut Jahn's Glass Machine, Saved by Google
  100 W Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 60601
• The Fisher Building: Burnham's Gothic Tower, Covered in Terra-Cotta Fish
  343 S Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60604
• The London Guarantee Building: An Insurance Palace Above the River That Became LondonHouse
  360 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
• The Manhattan Building: Jenney's 16-Story Skeleton That Proved the Skyscraper
  431 S Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60605
• The Railway Exchange Building: Burnham's White Tower Above Grant Park
  224 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60604
• The Uptown Theatre: Chicago's Biggest Movie Palace, Closed Since 1981 and Waiting for Its Second Act
  4816 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640
• The Medinah Athletic Club: The Shriners' Palace That Became the InterContinental
  505 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611
• Lake Point Tower: The Curve at the Edge of the Lake
  505 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
• 860-880 Lake Shore Drive: Mies van der Rohe's Glass Houses
  860-880 N Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611
• The Fine Arts Building: From Carriage Factory to Artists' Colony
  410 S Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60605
• Aqua Tower: Jeanne Gang's Waves of Concrete Above Lakeshore East
  225 N Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL 60601