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Built in 1897 as Chicago's first public library and headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Chicago Cultural Center building now houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries, and exhibition halls.
Built in 1897 as Chicago's first public library and headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Chicago Cultural Center building now houses the city's Visitor Information Center, galleries, and exhibition halls. It has a 4-storey north wing, and a 5-storey south wing designed in a generally neoclassical style with Italian Renaissance elements. The building is an architectural delight, featuring a limestone façade with colonnaded galleries. It is worth a visit to see the beautiful interiors with marble halls and stairways, and mosaics of Favrile glass, stone, gold leaf, and mother of pearl. The ceiling of Preston Bradley Hall has a 38-foot Tiffany glass dome by Holtzer, and the north wing includes the impressive Grand Army of the Republic Rotunda with a Renaissance stained-glass dome by Healy and Millet. The Cultural Center presents an excellent program of city-approved art and music events, as well as good theater performances.
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78 E Washington St, Chicago, IL, United States
+1 312-744-6630
Anyone who has seen Adventures in Babysitting should immediately recognize this 1984 building, as its slanted roof (lit up at night) played a very important role in the film's climax
Louis Sullivan was only a draftsman at the time this was built, but there are some interesting designs nestled into expressive façade and the classic, powerful masonry walls
Louis Sullivan designed the northernmost of the three buildings here, and the team of Holabird & Roche added the next two
A beautiful Art Deco tower covered in dark green terra cotta and adorned with a gold terra cotta leaf at the pinnacle
A then-unprecedented amount of glass was used in this early skyscraper, bewildering a public still used to masonry walls
Originally built as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theater for motion pictures, it has been refurbished as one of the city's premier performance venues
Originally known as the Oriental Theater when it opened in 1926 as an ornate movie palace on the site of the former Iroquois Theater, the Ford Center for Performing Arts is a premier live performance venue that hosts Broadway productions
The Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center is home to the renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of 5 American orchestras that constitute the "Big Five" of classical music
