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Playboy had sold the leasehold in 1980 and signed a 10-year lease that expired in 1990. The new leaseholder renamed the building 919 North Michigan Avenue. [2] During the time that Playboy was in the building, the word P-L-A-Y-B-O-Y was spelled out in 9-foot (2.7 m) illuminated letters on the north and south roofline. [3]
The building was designated a Chicago Landmark on September 27, 2000. [1] According to a real estate firm that manages the property, the height of the building is listed in various documents as 260 or 273 or 282 feet (79 or 83 or 86 m). [citation needed] The building underwent an $11 million (equivalent to $18.9 million in 2023) [2] renovation ...
The 44-year-old building consisted of classrooms, offices, an arena, a gymnasium with 5,200 seats, a swimming pool, locker rooms, handball courts and a cafeteria. Alumni Hall's value was equivalent to $18 million today. [4] It was home to the DePaul Blue Demons men's basketball team from 1956 until they moved to the Rosemont Horizon in 1980. [1]
Tesla's Gigafactory Giga Texas is 16 city blocks long with a length of 1,310 m (4,300 ft). [2] [3] Jean-Luc Lagardère Plant France: Toulouse-Blagnac: 122,500 m 2 (1,319,000 sq ft) 5.6 million m 3 (199 million cu ft) The assembly hall of the Airbus A380, the world's largest airliner. [4] Aerium Germany: 1999–2000 Halbe, Brandenburg
Jennifer is an attorney who worked in the City of Chicago Law Department under Mayor Richard M. Daley's corporation counsel and now is on the Illinois Pollution Control Board. [166] Edward M. Burke Jr. was an assistant chief deputy to Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart . [ 167 ]
Richard M. Daley is the fourth of seven children and eldest son of Richard J. and Eleanor Daley, who later became Mayor and First Lady of Chicago in 1955.Born on April 24, 1942, [2] he grew up in Bridgeport, a historically Irish-American neighborhood located on Chicago's South Side.
The city of Rockford, Illinois's third-largest city and center of the state's fourth largest metropolitan area, sits along Interstates 39 and 90 some 75 mi (121 km) northwest of Chicago. The Quad Cities region, located along the Mississippi River in northern Illinois, had a population of 381,342 in 2011.
From the late 1950s, downtown Rockford (centered around the intersection of IL 2 and US 20; Main Street and West State Street) began to decline as the primary shopping district of the city. In 1956, North Towne Mall opened on the far northwest side of the city, with Colonial Village opening on the (then) far east side in 1962, both of which ...