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  2. World's Columbian Exposition - Wikipedia

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    The location of the fair was decided through several rounds of voting by the United States House of Representatives. The first ballot showed Chicago with a large lead over New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C., but short of a majority. Chicago broke the 154-vote majority threshold on the eighth ballot, receiving 157 votes to New York's 107.

  3. City Beautiful movement - Wikipedia

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    The World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 is often credited with ushering in the City Beautiful movement. The City Beautiful movement was a reform philosophy of North American architecture and urban planning that flourished during the 1890s and 1900s with the intent of introducing beautification and monumental grandeur in cities.

  4. Cloud Gate - Wikipedia

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    Cloud Gate. /  41.88270°N 87.62333°W  / 41.88270; -87.62333. Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian -born British artist Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of Grainger Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture and Grainger Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase ...

  5. Daniel Burnham - Wikipedia

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    Plan of Chicago. World's Columbian Exposition. Daniel Hudson Burnham FAIA (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the Beaux-Arts movement, he may have been "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ever produced." [1]

  6. Crown Fountain - Wikipedia

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    Crown Fountain is an interactive work of public art and video sculpture featured in Chicago 's Millennium Park, which is located in the Loop community area. Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa and executed by Krueck and Sexton Architects, it opened in July 2004. [1] [2] The fountain is composed of a black granite reflecting pool placed ...

  7. The Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The Mile-High Illinois, or simply The Illinois, is an unbuilt conceptual design by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for a one mile-high skyscraper to be built in Chicago, Illinois. Wright described the project in his 1957 book, A Testament. [1] The design included 528 stories, later revised to 365 stories, with a gross area of 18,460,000 ...

  8. Tribune Tower - Wikipedia

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    Designated. February 1, 1989. The Tribune Tower is a 463-foot-tall (141 m), 36-floor neo-Gothic skyscraper located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The early 1920s international design competition for the tower became a historic event in 20th-century architecture. [1]

  9. Marina City - Wikipedia

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    Marina City. Marina City is a mixed-use residential-commercial building complex in Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America, designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg. The multi-building complex on State Street on the north bank of the Chicago River on the Near North Side, directly across from the Loop, opened between 1963 and 1967.

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