Significant landmarks and Points of Interest of Chicago

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The Chicago Theater• “Wonder Theater of the World• Oct. 26, 1921• First , large, lavish theater in

America– Prototype

• $4 Million• French Baroque style

– Arc de Triomphe• $.25, $.35, $.50• Film and live entertainment• Sept. 19, 1985• 1986 – Chicago Theater

Restoration Associates– Sept. 10, 1986 Reopened

• Frank Sinatra

Civic Opera House• 1929 – built

– Samuel Insull, “Prince of Electricity”– Requirements for the new Opera

house• Safety• excellent sight lines• comfortable seating• gracious surroundings• premium acoustics

• 1996 – Fully restored– Lyric Opera of Chicago, Multimillion

dollar restoration• Lyric Opera of Chicago• Largest Opera Auditorium in North

America– Largest stage in Downtown

• hybrid of Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs

Daley Plaza• Richard J. Daley Center

– Modern Vs. Classical Architechture

– Court Rooms, Law Library and Office Spaces for City and Cook County

– Chicago Civic Center until 1976

• Picasso and the Plaza– Under the Picasso– Kris Kindle Market/ City

Christmas tree– Multi-cultural Mecca– Thursday Farmers market– Randolph and Washington;

Clark and Dearborn

House of Blues

• Isaac Tigrett and Dan Aykroyd• 1992, Cambridge,

Massachusetts – Harvard Square (13 today)

• Dan Aykroyd, Aerosmith, Paul Shaffer, River Phoenix, Jim Belushi and Harvard University

• Prominent Concert Venue– restaurant

• Live Nation