McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink or McCormick Tribune Plaza is a multi-purpose venue located along the western edge of
Millennium Park in the
Historic Michigan Boulevard District of the
Looparea of
Chicago in
Cook County,
Illinois,
USA. Opening in 2001, it was the first attraction in Millennium Park. The plaza was funded by a donation from the McCormick Tribune Foundation. For four months a year, it operates as McCormick Tribune Ice Rink, a free public outdoor
ice skating rink, and one of the ten parks on ice in the
Chicago Park District. It is generally open for skating from mid-November until mid-March. It is known as one of Chicago's better outdoor
people watching locations during the winter months. For the rest of the year, it serves as Plaza at Park Grill or Park Grill Plaza, Chicago's largest outdoor dining facility. The park grill hosts various culinary events as well as music during its months of outdoor operation.
Image 5Chicago Union Station, opened in 1925, is the third-busiest passenger rail terminal in the United States. (from Chicago)
Image 6A satellite image of Chicago (from Chicago)
Image 7Carl Sandburg's most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat / Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler, / Stormy, Husky, Brawling, City of the Big Shoulders." (from Chicago)
Image 46WGN began in the early days of radio and developed into a multi-platform broadcaster, including a cable television super-station. (from Chicago)
... that
Zenith Data Systems unveiled their SupersPort laptop at a Chicago show that featured helmeted performers and motorcyclists?
... that following a 1964 police raid on a gay bar, Chicago newspapers published the names and personal information of several of those arrested?
... that John William Kiser, who arrived in Chicago "practically penniless", took advantage of a boom in bicycle usage when he formed the Monarch Bicycle company?
James Sanford "Jimmy" Lavender (1884 – 1960) was an American professional
baseball player who played in
Major League Baseball as a
pitcher from 1912 to 1917. He played a total of five seasons with the
Chicago Cubs of the
National League from 1912 to 1916; after being traded to the
Philadelphia Phillies, he played an additional season in 1917. During his playing days, his height was listed at 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m), his weight as 165 pounds (75 kg), and he batted and threw right-handed. Born in
Barnesville, Georgia, he began his professional baseball career in
minor league baseball in 1906 at the age 22. He worked his way through the system over the next few seasons, culminating with a three-season stint with the
Providence Grays of the
Eastern League from 1909 to 1911. Lavender primarily threw the
spitball, and used it to win 16 games as a 28-year-old rookie in 1912. In July 1912, he defeated
Rube Marquard, ending Marquard's consecutive win streak at 19 games, which at the time tied the record for the longest win streak for a pitcher in MLB history. Lavender's early success as a rookie soon turned to mediocrity as his career progressed, winning no more than 11 games in any season afterward. On August 31, 1915, he threw a
no-hitter against the
New York Giants. He was traded to the Phillies before the 1917 season, and he played one season for the team, winning six games before retiring from major league baseball. Lavender returned to Georgia, worked on his farm in
Montezuma, Georgia, and played professional baseball in an independent league. He died in
Cartersville, Georgia at the age of 75.
The Isidore H. Heller House is a house located at 5132 Woodlawn Avenue in the
Hyde Parkcommunity area of
Chicago in
Cook County,
Illinois,
United States. The house was designed by American
architectFrank Lloyd Wright. The design is credited as one of the turning points in Wright's shift to
geometric,
Prairie School architecture, which is defined by horizontal lines, flat or
hipped roofs with broad overhanging
eaves, windows grouped in horizontal bands, and an integration with the landscape, which is meant to evoke native
Prairie surroundings. The work demonstrates Wright's shift away from emulating the style of his mentor,
Louis Sullivan.
Richard Bock, a Wright collaborator and sculptor, provided some of the ornamentation, including a
plasterfrieze. The ownership history of this building demonstrates the property's evolution and development in the framework of surrounding Hyde Park buildings, and the building's location in the current community—near other Prairie School architecture—includes this building into the overall body of Lloyd Wright's work. The Heller House was designated a
Chicago Landmark on September 15, 1971, and added to the
National Register of Historic Places on March 16, 1972. On 18 August 2004, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated the house a
National Historic Landmark.
...that 141 West Jackson Boulevard,
Chicago, Illinois, the address of the Chicago Board of Trade Building (pictured), has been the address of two different buildings that at one point was the tallest building in Chicago?
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