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The Galapagos racer is near threatened due to recently introduced species that feed on snake eggs, including pigs, rats, mice, and cats. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is one of only three species of snakes on the Galápagos Islands, and it was first described in 1860.
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 ] The district encompasses Chicago's financial center, which is anchored by the Chicago Board of Trade Building , and also includes several of its major banking institutions including the Federal Reserve bank and ...
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970, as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
The architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates who designed 333 also designed the high-rise buildings 225 W Wacker to the east, and 191 N Wacker Drive to the south. The building marks the division between North Wacker Drive and West Wacker Drive as the street makes a 90 degree turn.
530.5 feet (161.7 m) Park Place Tower in Lakeview is the tallest building in Illinois outside of downtown Chicago. 513 feet (156 m) Park Tower in Edgewater is the second-tallest building in Illinois outside of downtown Chicago. 418 feet (127 m) Oakbrook Terrace Tower in Oakbrook Terrace is the tallest building in Illinois outside of Chicago.
Illinois Center is a mixed-use urban development in downtown Chicago, Illinois, USA, lying east of Michigan Avenue. It is notable in that the streets running through it have three levels. Elsewhere in Chicago, some streets have two levels, with the lower level for through traffic and service vehicles and the upper level for other local traffic ...
At 961 feet (293 m) tall, it is the ninth-tallest building in Chicago and the 36th tallest in the United States. It was once the tallest reinforced concrete building in the world. 311 South Wacker was also the tallest building in the world known only by its street address, until it was surpassed in height by New York's 432 Park Avenue in 2015.
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.