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Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Chicago History Museum is the museum of the Chicago Historical Society (CHS). The CHS was founded in 1856 to study and interpret Chicago's history. The museum has been located in Lincoln Park since the 1930s at 1601 North Clark Street at the intersection of North Avenue in the Old Town Triangle neighborhood, where the museum has been expanded several times.
The United Kingdom’s new monarch, King Charles III, brings to mind the last time our city went king crazy, Chicago. The Field Museum was one of six institutions in the United States chosen to ...
The first sites in Chicago to be listed were four listed on October 15, 1966, when the National Register was created by the National Park Service: the settlement house Hull House, the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Frederick C. Robie House, the Lorado Taft Midway Studios, and the site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction. The NPS first ...
Out in Chicago: LGBT History at the Crossroads. Chicago: Chicago History Museum. ISBN 978-0-913820-35-3 – via Google Books. Baim, Tracy, ed. (2008). Out and Proud in Chicago. Chicago: Agate Publishing. ISBN 978-1-57284-643-2. de la Croix, Sukie (2012). Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall. UPCC Book Collections on ...
State Bank of Chicago 1928 [26] 22 [26] Yes 135 South LaSalle Field Building. 1934 [27] 42 [27] Yes 190 South LaSalle U.S. Bank Building. 1987 [28] 42 [28] No [28] 208 South LaSalle Continental and Commercial National Bank 1914 [29] 20 [29] Yes 209 South LaSalle Rookery Building. 1888 / 1992 [30] 11 [30] Yes 230 South LaSalle Federal Reserve ...
The Historic Michigan Boulevard District is a historic district in the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States encompassing Michigan Avenue between 11th (1100 south in the street numbering system) or Roosevelt Road (1200 south), depending on the source, and Randolph Streets (150 north) and named after the nearby Lake Michigan.