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The West Loop–LaSalle Street Historic District is a historic district centered on LaSalle Street in the western Chicago Loop. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 1, 2013. [1] A boundary increase on July 24, 2017, added two buildings at 330 S. Wells Street and 212 W. Van Buren Street to the district. [2]
LaSalle Street is a major north-south street in Chicago named for René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, a 17th century French explorer of the Illinois Country. The portion that runs through the Chicago Loop is considered to be Chicago's financial district.
The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, 604-foot (184 m) Art Deco skyscraper located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the LaSalle Street canyon. Built in 1930 for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT), it has served as the primary trading venue of the CBOT and later the CME Group, formed in 2007 by the merger of the CBOT and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
LaSalle Street Station is a commuter rail terminal at 414 South LaSalle Street in downtown Chicago.First used as a rail terminal in 1852, it was a major intercity rail terminal for the New York Central Railroad until 1968, and for the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad until 1978, but now serves only Metra's Rock Island District.
The LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse helped make possible the rapid development of the city's outlying North Side neighborhoods during one of the greatest boom periods in the history of Chicago. Cable cars operated in Chicago until 1906. The LaSalle Street Cable Car Powerhouse was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 27, 2001. [4]
The Continental and Commercial National Bank is a historic office building located at 208 S. LaSalle Street in Chicago's Loop. The 21-story building was built in 1911-14 for the Continental and Commercial National Bank, at the time one of the largest banks in the nation.
The building is a contributing property to the West Loop–LaSalle Street Historic District, [1] which was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. [5] The building is currently owned by Tishman Speyer. It has 960,964 square feet (89,276.5 m 2) of office space and a LEED Silver Certification. [6]
West LaSalle Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana.It encompasses 33 contributing buildings and 2 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of South Bend.