Chicago, Illinois

Fred Wacker - MSGA Second Vice President

360 North Wacker Drive gets into the holiday spirit.

Helmut Jahn's One South Wacker Drive Building and Pei Cobb Freed's Hyatt Center make for an intriguing architectural pattern.

Chicago River

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Prominent in this scene by the Chicago River is the 40-storey 35 East Wacker building, built in 1927 as the Pure Oil Building and the North American Life Insurance Building.

September 1989

Rollei 35 camera

Kodak Ektachrome 100 film.

Heading east from Wacker Quay.

Chicago (Cook Co.), IL

handpainted sticker

2:0, aber immer noch im Abstiegskampf. Ein Wahnsinn, diese 2. Liga.

LOL

The windows of a downtown Loop skyscraper reflected in a pool of rainwater on Wacker near Adams.

In Explore, July 10, 2008

Cars speed in both directions as Wacker Drive curves from N/S to E/W with the Wells Street Bridge in the background.

West Wacker Drive streetscape viewed from the Chicago Riverwalk.

Go to www.willistower.com/ for info on the building at left.

Photo by John Koston

(c) 2011 Koston Photography; all rights reserved.

...new building on the Chicago River

Wacker Drive

C F Murphy

Made from a bath scale, clock works and other found objects.

Chicago Illinois

Waterview - 2009 - project stalled after rising 1/3 of the way.

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Hmmm, come 'on people - this one just begs for comments!!

An einem sehr wechselhaftem Freitagnachmittag bin ich nach Hebertshausen gefahren. Dort ist eine Euro Dual von DB Cargo mit einem Kesselzug in Richtung München gekommen. Genau 20 Sekunden nach dem der Zug durch war, zogen sich große Wolken vor die Sonne. Also da hatte ich jetzt aber mal echt Glück gehabt.

View of Upper Wacker Drive

Looking towards the Michigan Avenue/DuSable Bridge

Spanning the main stem of the Chicago River

LEFT to RIGHT:

Wrigley Building (1925; 30 stories)

www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1019/Wrigley-Buildi...

InterContinental Chicago (1929; 45 stories)

formerly: Medinah Athletic Club

www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/1021/InterContinent...

Tribune Tower (1925; 34 stories)

www.chicagoarchitecture.info/Building/376/Tribune-Tower.php

MICHIGAN-WACKER HISTORIC DISTRICT:

Take a walk and explore the architectural beauty of the Michigan-Wacker Historic District (a National Register of Historic Places District that includes parts of the Chicago Loop and Near North Side). This district is immediately north of the Historic Michigan Boulevard District.

The Michigan-Wacker Historic District is known for the Chicago River, two bridges that cross it (including the Michigan Avenue Bridge, officially re-named the DuSable Bridge in 2010), one monument, and eleven high rise and skyscraper buildings erected in the 1920's (Gothic or Baroque architecture). It was here that Chicago was born with the founding of the original Fort Dearborn, 1803-1812. In 1816, a new fort was constructed on the same site after a fire destroyed the original. It was de-commissioned by 1837, and parts of the fort were lost to the widening of the Chicago River in 1855 and a fire in 1857; the last vestiges being destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The site of the fort is now a Chicago Landmark.

Trench Roller