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Wolf Point in July 2018 Map depicting Wolf Point (area owned by the Kennedy family in black, with approximate area of the historical Wolf Point settlement in red). Wolf Point is the location at the confluence of the North, South and Main Branches of the Chicago River in the present day Near North Side, Loop, and Near West Side community areas of Chicago.
Salesforce Tower Chicago (initially named Wolf Point South Tower during construction) is a skyscraper at Wolf Point in downtown Chicago. It is the tallest and last built of a three tower megadevelopment partly owned by the Kennedy family. [2] The 835 ft (255 m)-tall [1] tower was designed by Pelli Clarke and was completed in 2023. [3]
The name is said to possibly derive from a Native American Chief whose name translated to wolf, but alternate theories exist. Historically, the west bank of the river at the fork was called "Wolf Point," but in the 1820s and 1830s it came to denote the entire area and the settlement that grew up around the fork.
Sauganash Hotel (originally Eagle Exchange Tavern) was a hotel regarded as the first hotel in Chicago, Illinois.Built in 1831, the hotel was located at Wolf Point in the present-day Loop community area at the intersection of the north, south and main branches of the Chicago River.
The site of Wolf Point South Tower in March 2014. The property upon which the development was planned is historic and drew scrutiny by critics. [11] Plans for the tower development were presented as scheduled by the Kennedy family on land that they own in the River North neighborhood at the confluence of South, North, and Main Branches of the Chicago River southwest of the Merchandise Mart ...
Fulton House is a former cold storage warehouse converted into a residential building at Wolf Point, Chicago. Fulton House was built in 1898 by Frank B. Abbott as a 15-story warehouse structure. In 1908, the building was converted to a cold storage warehouse with an addition of a section to the north and a 16th floor.
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As far as I can tell from the history books and historical journal articles in Chicago that I have looked at, the chronology of early non-native activities around the mouth of the Chicago River and Wolf Point goes something like this: Jolliet and Marquette, though probably not the first Europeans to visit the area, are the first recorded to ...