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November 25, 1916. ( 1916-11-25) Architect. Fred Prather. Website. Venue Website. Park West (originally the Lane Court Theatre) is a concert venue located in Chicago, Illinois. The theater opened in 1916 as a vaudeville and movie theater by the Ascher Brothers. Currently, it can house up to 1,000 guests in a general admission setting.
Riverside, Illinois. Location of Riverside in Cook County, Illinois. / 41.83083°N 87.81611°W / 41.83083; -87.81611. Riverside is a suburban village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population of the village was 9,298 at the 2020 census. [3] It is a suburb of Chicago, located roughly 9 miles (14 km) west of downtown Chicago ...
Cantigny (pronounced kan-TEE-nee) is a 500-acre (2.0 km 2) park in Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the Chicago Tribune, and is open to the public. Cantigny comprises expansive formal and informal gardens, a Georgian-style brick ...
December 15, 1972. The Midway Plaisance, known locally as the Midway, is a public park on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. It is one mile long by 220 yards wide and extends along 59th and 60th streets, joining Washington Park at its west end and Jackson Park at its east end. It divides the Hyde Park community area to the north from the ...
The second West Side Park was a few blocks west-southwest of the first one, on a larger block bounded by Taylor, Wood, Polk and Lincoln (renamed Wolcott in 1939) Streets. It was located at 41°52′13″N87°40′21″W41.87028°N 87.67250°W. A ballpark on the site was first constructed in 1888 for the Garden City Athletic Club.
55th–56th–57th Street station. / 41.793354; -87.587476. 55th–56th–57th Street is a commuter rail station in Hyde Park, Chicago that serves the Metra Electric Line north to Millennium Station and south to University Park, Blue Island, and South Chicago; and the South Shore Line to Gary and South Bend, Indiana.
River Point, previously known as 200 North Riverside Plaza, is a 52-story 730 ft. (213 m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois, located at 444 West Lake Street. The 52-story building has 1 million square feet (93,000 m 2) of floor space. It sits on air rights above active railroad tracks and as well the subway portion of the CTA Blue Line ...
Significant dates. Added to NRHP. November 20, 1986. Designated CL. February 5, 2003. Café Brauer (also known as the South Pond Refectory) is a restaurant building and official landmark located in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois, at the edge of the Lincoln Park Zoo. It was designed by Dwight H. Perkins and completed in 1908.