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"Neither a movement nor a style, Hairy Who was simply the name six Chicago artists chose when they decided to join forces and exhibit together in the mid-1960s." [8]The Hairy Who was a "group" made up of six School of the Art Institute graduates, mentored by Ray Yoshida [9] and Whitney Halstead.: [2] Jim Falconer, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Karl Wirsum, and Suellen Rocca.
Miró's Chicago (originally called The Sun, the Moon and One Star) [1] is a sculpture by Joan Miró in Brunswick Plaza, Chicago, United States. It is 39 feet (12 m) tall, and is made of steel , wire mesh , concrete , bronze , and ceramic tile .
Daley Center is the central courthouse, and one of six courthouses for the County One of the Circuit Court's courthouses. The Circuit Court of Cook County is the largest of the 25 circuit courts (trial courts of original and general jurisdiction) in the judiciary of Illinois as well as one of the largest unified court systems in the United States – second only in size to the Superior Court ...
The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA or the Simpson–Mazzoli Act) was passed by the 99th United States Congress and signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on November 6, 1986.
As of 2013, the Chicago area has the largest Palestinian American population in the U.S., and that Chicago-area Palestinian-origin people made up 25% of all Palestinian-originating persons in the U.S. [59] In 1995 there were 85,000 persons of Palestinian origin in the Chicago area, making up about 60% of the Arab Americans there; at that time ...
The Chicago and Pacific Railroad constructed railroad onto Goose Island in the 1870s. [14] This company was absorbed into the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway in 1880. [15] Operation of the surviving railroad on Goose Island was taken over by the Soo Line Railroad in 1986, and then by the Chicago Terminal Railroad in January 2007.
The Chicago Cultural Center underwent an extensive [4] renovation during 2021–2022 [5] with the goal of unearthing the original beauty of the building. The detailed restoration of the art glass dome and decorative finishes in the Grand Army of the Republic rooms, a Civil War memorial, was made possible by a grant of services valued at over $15 million to the City of Chicago.
The James R. Thompson Center (JRTC), under reconstruction as Google Center or Googleplex Chicago and originally the State of Illinois Center, is a postmodern-style building designed by architect Helmut Jahn, located at 100 W. Randolph Street in the Loop district of Chicago.