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River City is situated alongside the Chicago River and consists of two 7- to 14-story, serpentine residential towers constructed of reinforced, poured-in-place concrete "shells" with 449 residential units, varying in size from studios to 4-bedroom penthouses. The towers sit on a 4-story post-and-beam "plinth" that contains approximately 225,000 ...
The Powhatan or Powhatan Apartments is a 22-story luxury apartment building overlooking Lake Michigan and adjacent to Burnham Park in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. [2] The building was designed by architects Robert De Golyer and Charles L. Morgan. [ 3 ]
Dearborn was the first Chicago housing project built after World War II, as housing for blacks on part of the Federal Street slum within the "black belt". [3] It was the start of the Chicago Housing Authority's post-war use of high-rise buildings to accommodate more units at a lower overall cost, [6] and when it opened in 1950, the first to have elevators.
Pages in category "Apartment buildings in Chicago" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
The housing project was modeled after the Dunbar Apartments in Harlem, New York City, built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1926. [4] In 1981, the Rosenwald Apartment Building received National Register of Historic Places designation. [3] The last residents moved out in 2000, after mismanagement and lack of upkeep made the site uninhabitable.
Robert Taylor Homes was a public housing project in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois from 1962 to 2007. The second largest housing project in the United States, it consisted of 28 virtually identical high-rises, set out in a linear plan for two miles (3 km), with the high-rises regularly configured in a horseshoe shape of three in each block.
Atwater Apartments is an apartment skyscraper adjacent to the Streeterville neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. [1] [2] It was previously called Streeter Place. [3] The building was completed in 2009. It contains 54 stories, 480 units, and many amenities. [4]
Axis Apartments is a sixty-story high rise apartment tower in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill , it was completed in 1986 as Onterie Center . The name was a conflation of "Ontario" and "Erie", the streets at its two entrances.