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The Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker is a limestone obelisk that commemorates the establishment of the border between Illinois and Indiana.. Constructed by the Office of the United States Surveyor General in 1838, its current location near the northernmost point between the two states straddles the line between the cities of Hammond and Chicago, near the end of Avenue G on Chicago ...
Pages in category "Obelisks in the United States" The following 84 pages are in this category, out of 84 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Lincoln Park location was Chicago's oldest steel mill. [3] In 2006, it bought the site of the former Verson Steel on Chicago's South Side. [4] It was purchased by a German company in 2008, and has since operated from that location. [5] Since the demolition, there have been various proposals to connect the site to the popular Bloomingdale Trail.
The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2000, [4] and it was added to the federal National Register of Historic Places in 2003. In 2001, the building was sold to developer Draper and Kramer who, with Booth Hansen Architects, converted it to residential use, with the first two floors dedicated to upscale office and retail space.
Obelisks by the country in which they are currently located. Tall, four-sided, narrow tapering monuments, which end in a pyramid-like shape or pyramidion at the top.
The majority were dismantled during the Roman period over 1,700 years ago and the obelisks were sent to different locations. [ citation needed ] The largest standing and tallest Egyptian obelisk is the Lateran Obelisk in the square at the west side of the Lateran Basilica in Rome at 105.6 feet (32.2 m) tall and a weight of 455 metric tons (502 ...
Chicago And North Western 1518 EMD GP7: Diesel Locomotive Electro-Motive 1949 Operational Chicago And North Western Chicago And North Western 1689 Alco RSD5: Diesel Locomotive American Locomotive Company: 1954 Operational Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad: Chicago And North Western 6847 EMD SD40-2: Diesel Locomotive Electro-Motive Corporation ...
Washington Park is a community area on the South Side of Chicago which includes the 372 acre (1.5 km 2) park of the same name, [2] stretching east-west from Cottage Grove Avenue to the Dan Ryan Expressway, and north-south from 51st Street to 63rd.