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==Timeline of notable buildings== '''1836β1900''' * 1836 '''[[Henry B. Clarke House]]''' * 1869 '''[[Chicago Water Tower]]''', [[William W. Boyington]] * 1874 '''[[Second Presbyterian Church (Chicago, Illinois)|Second Presbyterian Church]]''' 1936 S. Michigan, [[James Renwick Jr.|James Renwick]] 1900 [[Howard Van Doren Shaw]][[File:Second_Presbyterian_Church_Chicago_IL.jpg|thumb|[[Second Presbyterian Church (Chicago)|Second Presbyterian Church]] (1874)]] * 1877 '''[[St. Stanislaus Kostka Church (Chicago, Illinois)|St. Stanislaus Kostka Church]]''' 1327 N. Noble, [[Patrick Keely]] * 1882–1883 '''[[Montauk Building]]''', [[Daniel Burnham]] and [[John Wellborn Root]]. First building to be called a "skyscraper." (Demolished, 1902) * 1885 '''[[Home Insurance Building]]''', [[Chicago school (architecture)|Chicago School]], [[William Le Baron Jenney]] (Demolished, 1931)[[File:Home Insurance Building.JPG|thumb|[[Home Insurance Building]] (1885)]] * 1885 '''[[Palmer Mansion]]''', early [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque]] and Norman [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic]], [[Henry Ives Cobb]] and [[Charles Sumner Frost]] (Demolished, 1950) * 1886 '''[[John J. Glessner House]]''', [[Henry Hobson Richardson]] * 1887 '''[[Marshall Field Warehouse]]''', [[Henry Hobson Richardson]] (Demolished, 1930) * 1888 '''[[Rookery Building]]''', [[Daniel Burnham]] and [[John Wellborn Root]], 1905 lobby redesign by [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] * 1889 '''[[Monadnock Building]]''', [[Daniel Burnham]] and [[John Wellborn Root]] * 1889 '''[[Auditorium Building, Chicago|Auditorium Building]]''', [[Louis Sullivan]] and [[Dankmar Adler]]. * 1889 '''[[St. Mary of Perpetual Help|St. Mary of Perpetual Help Church]]''', [[Henry Engelbert]] * 1890 and 1894–1895 '''[[Reliance Building]]''', [[Charles B. Atwood]] of [[Burnham & Root]] * 1890–1899 '''[[Gage Group Buildings]]''', [[Holabird & Roche]] with [[Louis Sullivan]] * 1891 '''[[Manhattan Building (Chicago, Illinois)|Manhattan Building]]''', [[William Le Baron Jenney]] * 1892 '''[[Masonic Temple (Chicago)|Masonic Temple]]''', [[Daniel Burnham]] and [[John Wellborn Root]] (Demolished, 1939) * 1892–1893 '''[[World's Columbian Exposition]]''', [[Daniel Burnham]], director of Works[[File:Looking_West_From_Peristyle,_Court_of_Honor_and_Grand_Basin,_1893.jpg|thumb|[[World's Columbian Exposition]] (1892–93)]] * 1893 Palace of Fine Arts, later [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Museum of Science and Industry]], [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]], [[Charles B. Atwood]] * 1893-1898 '''[[St. John Cantius in Chicago|St. John Cantius Church]]''', Alphonsus Druiding * 1894 '''[[Tree Studio Building and Annexes]]''', [[Lambert Tree|Judge Lambert & Anne Tree]] via [[Parfitt Brothers]]; 1912 annex: Hill and Woltersdorf * 1895–1896 '''[[Fisher Building (Chicago)]]''', [[D.H. Burnham & Company]], [[Charles B. Atwood]] * 1897 '''[[St. Paul Church, Chicago|St. Paul Church]]''' 2234 S. Hoyne, [[Henry Schlacks]] * 1897 '''[[Chicago Cultural Center|Chicago Library (now Chicago Cultural Center)]]''', [[Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge]] * 1899 '''[[Sullivan Center]]''', [[Louis Sullivan]]; 1905–1906, twelve-story south addition, [[D.H. Burnham & Company]] '''1900β1939''': * 1902 '''[[Marshall Field and Company Building]]''', north State Street building [[D.H. Burnham & Company]], [[Charles B. Atwood]] * 1903 '''[[Holy Trinity Cathedral, Chicago]]''' * 1905-1906 '''[[Holy Trinity Polish Mission]]''', Herman Olszewski and William G. Krieg, * 1905 '''[[Chicago Federal Building]]''', [[Henry Ives Cobb]] * 1906 '''[[Sears Merchandise Building Tower]]''', George G. Nimmons - William K. Fellows * 1907 '''[[Marshall Field and Company Building]]''', south State Street building [[D.H. Burnham & Company]], [[Charles B. Atwood]] * 1909 '''[[Robie House]]''', [[Prairie School]], [[Frank Lloyd Wright]][[File:Frederick_C._Robie_House.JPG|thumb|[[Robie House]] (1909)]] * 1910β1911 Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, Leon E. Stanhope. Designated a Chicago Landmark on June 9, 1993.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/E/EighthChurch.html |title=Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist |publisher=City of Chicago Department of Planning and Development, Landmarks Division |date=2003 |accessdate=2007-06-26 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607154356/http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/E/EighthChurch.html |archivedate=2007-06-07 }}</ref> * 1912β1914 '''[[St. Adalbert's in Chicago|St. Adalbert's Church]]''' 1650 W.17th street, [[Henry Schlacks]] * 1912 '''[[Medinah Temple]]''' North Wabash Avenue * 1912 '''[[Pulaski Park (Chicago)|Pulaski Park fieldhouse]]''' by [[Jens Jensen (landscape architect)|Jens Jensen]] * 1914 '''[[Navy Pier]]''' * 1914-1920 '''[[St. Mary of the Angels in Chicago|St. Mary of the Angels Church]]''' 1850 N. Hermitage Ave, [[Worthmann and Steinbach]] * 1915 '''[[Holy Cross Church in Chicago|Holy Cross Church]]''', [[Joseph Molitor]] * 1916 '''[[Navy Pier Auditorium]]''', [[Charles Sumner Frost]] * 1917–1920 '''[[Michigan Avenue Bridge]]''', [[Edward H. Bennett]] * 1917-1921 '''[[Basilica of St. Hyacinth]]''' 3636 West Wolfram Avenue, [[Worthmann & Steinbach]] * 1919-1924 '''[[Wrigley Building]]''', [[Graham, Anderson, Probst & White]] * 1921 '''[[Chicago Theatre]]''', Beaux-Arts, [[Rapp and Rapp|Cornelius W. Rapp and George L. Rapp]] * 1921 '''[[Old Chicago Main Post Office]]''', [[Graham, Anderson, Probst & White]] * 1922 '''[[Tribune Tower]]''', [[Neo-Gothic architecture|neo-Gothic]], [[John Mead Howells]] and [[Raymond M. Hood]][[File:Tribune_Tower3.jpg|thumb|[[Tribune Tower]] (1922)]] * 1924 '''[[Soldier Field]]''', [[Holabird & Roche]]; extensive renovation 2003, [[Ben Wood]] and [[Carlos Zapata]] * 1925 '''[[Uptown Theatre (Chicago)|Uptown Theatre]]''', [[Rapp and Rapp|Cornelius W. Rapp and George L. Rapp]] * 1927 '''[[Pittsfield Building]]''', [[Graham, Anderson, Probst and White]] * 1929 '''[[Carbide & Carbon Building]]''', Daniel and Hubert Burnham, sons of [[Daniel Burnham]] * 1929 '''[[Palmolive Building]]''', [[Art Deco]], [[Holabird & Roche|Holabird & Root]] * 1929 '''[[John G. Shedd Aquarium]]''', [[Graham, Anderson, Probst & White]] * 1930 '''[[Chicago Board of Trade Building]]''', [[Holabird & Roche|Holabird & Root]] * 1930 '''[[All Saints Cathedral, Chicago|All Saints Cathedral]]''', J. G. Steinbach * 1930 '''[[Gateway Theatre (Chicago)|Gateway Theatre]]''' Mason Rapp of [[Rapp & Rapp]]; extensive renovation 1979 to 1984, "Solidarity Tower" addition in 1985 * 1930 '''[[Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum]]''', Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr. * 1931 '''[[Merchandise Mart]]''', [[Graham, Anderson, Probst & White]] * 1930s-1960s '''[[Illinois Institute of Technology]]''', including [[S.R. Crown Hall]], Second Chicago School, [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] and [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]] * 1934 '''[[Field Building]]''', [[Graham, Anderson, Probst & White]] '''1940 to the present''': * 1940β1942 '''[[St. Wenceslaus in Chicago|St. Wenceslaus church]]''', 3400 N. Monticello Ave, McCarthy, Smith and Eppig * [[File:860-880_Lake_Shore_Drive.jpg|thumb|860-880 Lake Shore Drive]]1952 '''[[860β880 Lake Shore Drive]]''', [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] * 1957 '''[[Inland Steel Building]]''', [[Bruce Graham]] and [[Walter Netsch]], [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]], * 1964 '''[[Marina City]]''', [[Bertrand Goldberg]][[File:Marina_City,_Chicago,_Illinois,_Estados_Unidos,_2012-10-20,_DD_01.jpg|thumb|[[Marina City]] (1964)]] * 1968 '''[[Lake Point Tower]]''', [[John Heinrich]] and [[George Schipporeit]] * 1968 '''[[Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist (Chicago, Illinois)|Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist]]'''. [[Harry Weese]] * 1969 '''[[John Hancock Center]]''', [[Bruce Graham]], [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]] * 1973 '''[[330 North Wabash]]''', [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]] * 1974 '''[[Willis Tower]]''', [[Bruce Graham]], [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]] (''previously the Sears Tower'') * 1974 '''[[Aon Center (Chicago)|Aon Center]]''', [[Edward Durrell Stone]] (''earlier names were Standard Oil Building and Amoco Building'') * 1977 '''[[St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church]]''' * 1979-85 '''[[James R. Thompson Center]]''', [[Helmut Jahn]] * 1989 '''[[NBC Tower]]''', [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]] * 1990 '''[[American Medical Association Building]]''', [[Kenzo Tange]] * 1990 '''[[Athletic Club Illinois Center]]''', [[Kisho Kurokawa]] * 1991 '''[[Harold Washington Library Center]]''', [[Thomas Beeby]] * 1991 '''[[Rate Field]]''', Home of the White Sox * 1991 '''[[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago|Museum of Contemporary Art]]''', [[Josef Paul Kleihues]] * 1992 '''[[77 West Wacker Drive]]''', [[Ricardo Bofill]] * 2004 '''[[Millennium Park]]''', [[Frank Gehry]], [[Kathryn Gustafson]], [[Anish Kapoor]], [[Jaume Plensa]], and others, a showcase for 21st century modernism. * 2009 '''[[155 North Wacker]]''', [[Goettsch Partners]] * 2009 '''[[Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)|Trump International Hotel and Tower]]''', [[Skidmore, Owings & Merrill]] * 2010 '''[[Aqua (Chicago)|Aqua Tower]]''', [[Studio Gang Architects]] * 2019 [[NEMA (Chicago)|'''NEMA''']], [[Rafael ViΓ±oly Architects]] * 2019 '''[[One Bennett Park]]''', [[Robert A.M. Stern Architects]] * 2020 '''[[110 North Wacker]]''', Goettsch Partners * 2021 '''[[St. Regis Chicago]]''', [[Studio Gang Architects]][[File:St._Regis_Chicago.jpg|thumb|[[St. Regis Chicago]] (2021)]]
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