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McCormick Place is a convention center in Chicago. It is the largest convention center in North America. [2] It consists of four interconnected buildings and one indoor arena sited on and near the shore of Lake Michigan, about 2 mi (3.2 km) south of the Chicago Loop. McCormick Place hosts numerous trade shows and meetings.
The Sudbury Center Historic District is a historic district on Concord and Old Sudbury Roads in Sudbury, Massachusetts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] In 1976, it included 80 buildings over 193.6 acres (0.783 km 2 ).
The Wigwam - 1860 Republican National Convention. The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention. [1] It was located in Chicago, Illinois, at Lake Street and Market (later Wacker Drive) near where the Chicago River divides into its north and south branches, on property owned by Garrett Theological Seminary. [2]
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Marriott Marquis Chicago is a 39-story hotel near McCormick Place. The hotel has 63 meeting rooms totaling 89,407 square feet of space, [ 2 ] and is considered by some as an expansion of McCormick Place , given that the hotel and convention center are connected via an enclosed footbridge .
The Chicago Cultural Center underwent an extensive [4] renovation during 2021–2022 [5] with the goal of unearthing the original beauty of the building. The detailed restoration of the art glass dome and decorative finishes in the Grand Army of the Republic rooms, a Civil War memorial, was made possible by a grant of services valued at over $15 million to the City of Chicago.
Downtown Chicago, Illinois, has some double-decked and a few triple-decked streets immediately north and south of the Main Branch and immediately east of the South Branch of the Chicago River. The most famous and longest of these is Wacker Drive, which replaced the South Water Street Market upon its 1926 completion. [1]
Address: 4220 South Halsted Street Chicago, Illinois 60609 United States: Coordinates: 1]: Owner: Union Stock Yard and Transit Company (until 1983): Capacity: 9,000: Construction; Opened: December 1, 1934 () [2]: Closed: 1999: Demolished: August 3, 1999 (began): Construction cost: $1.5 million ($34.2 million in 2023 dollars [3]): Architect: Abraham Epstein [2] [4]: Tenants; Chicago American ...