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It is located at 75 East Wacker Drive in the downtown "loop" area, adjacent to the Chicago River. The 521-foot (159 m)-high building is sometimes called "The Inverted Spyglass" by Chicagoans due to its highly unusual design, an 18-story octagonal tower atop a more conventional 24-story rectangular "box."
The warehouse was a major shipping and distribution center at the time. In 1990, the Morton International Building, now the Boeing International Headquarters, was built on the original Butler Brothers Warehouse lot facing the river. Because of this, only the top block of The Gogo Building can now be seen from the Chicago River.
Peter Hand, a Prussian-born Civil War veteran, who had previously worked for the Conrad Seipp Brewing Company, established his brewery in 1891 in Chicago. By the time Hand died in 1899, he had found success with a lager named Meister Brau. The brewery continued to grow and though it was "officially" closed between 1920 and 1933 (as a result of ...
It is operated by the Sofitel hotel chain. The hotel was designed by French architect Jean-Paul Viguier. [2] The hotel opened in May 2002 with 415 rooms and upon opening was noted for its French-style architecture. [3] It has a unique knifelike edge on the southern end which extends 33 feet over the sidewalk. [2]
In 1861, he formed a partnership with Matheus Gottfried to establish a brewery at the intersection of Jefferson and 12th Streets in Chicago. [5] They produced approximately 600 barrels of beer per year until 1867 when Schoenhofen bought out Gottfried, moved production to a newer facility constructed at the intersection of 18th Street and ...
Chicago River is the south border (right) of the Near North Side and Streeterville and the north border (left) of Chicago Loop, Lakeshore East and Illinois Center (viewed from Lake Shore Drive's Link Bridge with Trump International Hotel & Tower at jog in the river in the center) The former Illinois Central Railroad freight terminal with 333 North Michigan, Wrigley Building and Tribune Tower ...
Sep. 27—ROCHESTER — It looks like beer, probably German beer, is on the menu for a long-empty space in Rochester's Elton Hills Plaza West. A building permit was recently filed with the city of ...
View of Wolf Point from the south in the Chicago Loop (2005). The origin of the name, Wolf Point, is unknown. In her 1856 memoir Wau-Bun, Juliette Kinzie states that 'the place was then called Wolf Point, from its having been the residence of an Indian named "Moa-way," or "the Wolf."' [2] Other alternate explanations are that it was so-named after the landlord of what would later be called the ...