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Brian Friel (9 January 1929 – 2 October 2015) was an Irish dramatist, author and director of the Field Day Theatre Company. Until his death, he was thought to be one of the greatest living English-language dramatists. Friel is best known for plays such as Philadelphia, Here I Come! and Dancing at Lughnasa, but has written more than thirty plays in a career spanning for sixty years.

Death
Friel died after a long illness on 2 October 2015 in Greencastle, County Donegal. He was 86.

References

Other websites
 
 
Faber and Faber  – UK publisher of Brian Friel's plays
About Friel: The Playwright and the Work  ed. by Tony Coult
Brian Friel in Conversation  ed. by Paul Delaney
The Diviner: The Art of Brian Friel  by Richard Pine

1929 births
2015 deaths
Disease-related deaths in the Republic of Ireland
Irish stage actors
Northern Ireland people
Tony Award winners
Reagan is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Clinton County, Indiana.

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Unincorporated communities in Indiana
Roderick Morris Buckenham "Rod" de'Ath (18 June 1950 – 1 August 2014) was a Welsh rock musician and record producer. He was best known for being his work with Irish guitarist Rory Gallagher in the 1970s. He was Gallagher's drummer from 1972 until 29 April 1978. During this time, Northern Irish musician Lou Martin was Gallagher's keyboardist. He was also a member of the North London-based rock band Killing Floor, founded in 1968.

Rod de'Ath was born in Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire. In 1987, he was injured badly in a train accident that caused him to lose an eye and have brain damage, putting him into a coma. After this, de'Ath was stated to be dead in many obituaries. However, he made an appearance a few months after Rory Gallagher's death to prove he was alive.

Rod de'Ath died after a long illness on 1 August 2014 in London, England, aged 64.

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1950 births
2014 deaths
British record producers
British rock drummers
Disease-related deaths in England
Welsh rock musicians
Margaret Ellen "Peggy" Noonan (born September 7, 1950) is an American author of seven books. Her books are mostly about politics, religion, and culture. She is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal. She was a primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan.

In her political writings, Noonan writes about the politician she likes. They include Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, and Edmund Burke.

References

Other websites

Peggy Noonan official website
Column archive at The Wall Street Journal

Booknotes interview with Noonan on What I Saw at the Revolution, February 18, 1990. 
In Depth interview with Noonan, March 3, 2002

1950 births
Living people
American journalists
Writers from New York City
Family Matters is an American sitcom which originated on NBC from January 9, 1986 to July 21, 1995. It ran for nine seasons. It is set in Chicago, Illinois.

1989 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
1980s American black sitcoms
1990s American television series
American sitcoms
Television series set in Chicago
Television spin-offs
English-language television programs
Google Street View is a feature that is used by Google Maps and Google Earth to show various streets throughout the world. Urban areas have the most pictures; many rural areas have none. The program was launched on May 25, 2007 and now has 48 countries with full or partial coverage.

Countries 

Countries in bold symbolize countries with full coverage.

References

Other websites
 Official website
 Google Maps
 Map of Street View coverage

Street View
John George Bartholomew (22 March 1860 - 14 April 1920) was a British cartographer and geographer. Because he had a royal warrant, he used the name "Cartographer to the King". He is also known as "the Prince of Cartography."

Bartholomew is best known for naming the continent Antarctica, which before was ignored because of its lack of resources and bad weather.

Biography 

Bartholomew came from a family of great map-makers. He was the son of Scottish cartographer John Bartholomew Junior and grandson of the founder of a very popular map-making company named John Bartholomew and Son Ltd.

Bartholomew helped make John Bartholomew and Son Ltd. one of the best in the business. During this time, he also introduced the use of colored contour layer maps; he also helped future travelers by making many maps of major cities, railroads, and so on.
He worked with major scientific figures and travelers on projects involving their studies. During his life, he worked on an Atlas of Meteorology and Atlas of Zoo geography, however, he never finished. Before he died he was able to plan out the first edition of the Times Survey Atlas of the World; which would later become the most successful atlas project of the twentieth century.

Legacy 

Bartholomew received the Victoria Research Gold Medal and Helen Carver medal. He was also put in the Royal Geographical Society.

References 

Cartographers
1860 births
1920 deaths
The British Antarctic Expedition 1907–09 was also called the Nimrod Expedition. It was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest Shackleton. The purpose of the journey was to reach the South Pole. They did not reach the South Pole. They had to turn back, 180.6 kilometers (112.2 miles) away from their destination. This was much nearer the Pole than anyone else had come. The group was also the first to climb Mount Erebus.

The group returned as heroes. Shackleton received many awards. These included a knighthood from King Edward VIII. Three years later, a group led by Roald Amundsen was first to arrive at the South Pole.

References 

History of Antarctica
Exploration
1907
1908
1909
The Cercopithecinae are an important subfamily of Old World monkeys. There are 12 genera and about 71 species. the baboons, the macaques and the vervet monkeys.

Most of then live in sub-Saharan Africa, but the macaques range from the far eastern parts of Asia through northern Africa, and Gibraltar.

Characteristics 
The various species are adapted to the different terrains they inhabit. Tree-dwelling (arboreal) species are slim, delicate and have a long tail. Ground-dwelling species are heavier, and their tail may be small or nonexistent. All species have well-developed thumbs.

Like many Old World monkeys, they have pads on their bottoms. These are called ischial callosities. They let the monkeys sleep sitting upright on thin branches, beyond reach of predators, without falling off. In some species, these pads change their colour during the mating period.
These monkeys are active in the daytime, and live together in social groups. They live in all types of terrain and climate, from cool mountains to rain forests, savannah, bald rocky areas or even snowy mountains, as does the Japanese macaque.

Most species are omnivorous, with diets ranging from fruits, leaves, seeds, buds, and mushrooms to insects and spiders to smaller vertebrates. All species have cheek pouches in which they can store food.

Gestation lasts approximately six to seven months. Young are weaned after three to 12 months and are fully mature within three to five years. The life expectancy of some species can be as long as 50 years.

Related pages 
Macaca
Papio
Mandrillus

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Sodium cyclamate is an artificial sweetener. It is 30 to 50 times sweeter than sugar. Even though other artificial sweeteners are more potent, sodium cyclamate is often used because of its taste, which is close to naturally occurring sugar. Some studies have found that sodium cyclamate causes cancer. For this reason, its use is forbidden in the United States. In the European Union, the use in certain kinds of products is limited (to a maximal dose).

References

Sweeteners
Token Ring is a networking protocol for Local area networks. It uses token passing at the data link layer. The token has two states, either it is free, or it is taken, and data follows. When a computer has a message to send, it appends the message to the token, and sets the token state to taken. Each workstation along the ring sees the message. If the workstation was the recipient of the message, it sends a new empty token, otherwise it passes the token along. Since the only way to send data is to wait for an empty token, there will be no collisions. Token ring is the network that has fair access for all its connected workstations or host.

Token Ring was mainly used by IBM in the 1970s to 1990s, today, Ethernet has replaced it in many applications.

Computer networking
Claude Bertrand (March 28, 1917 – August 7, 2014) was a Canadian neurosurgeon.

Bertrand was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec. He received a Bachelor of Arts in 1934 and a Doctor of Medicine from Université de Montréal in 1940. He went to Oxford in 1946.

In 1971, he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada "for his research work and his contribution to the advancement of neurosurgery".

He died on August 7, 2014.

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1917 births
2014 deaths
People from Quebec
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Surgeons
Bud Spencer (born Carlo Pedersoli; 31 October 1929 – 27 June 2016) was an Italian actor, filmmaker and a former professional swimmer. He was known for working on comedy movies with his longtime friend Terence Hill. Spencer is known for his roles in They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name, Crime Busters, Miami Supercops, and in Troublemakers.

References

Other websites

Hill & Spencer website  
Carlo Pedersoli at sports-reference.com 

1929 births
2016 deaths
Italian movie actors
Italian television actors
Italian movie directors
Italian sportspeople
Italian writers
Italian singers
Italian fashion designers
Italian screenwriters
Italian comedians
Italian lawyers
Swimmers
Actors from Naples
20th-century Italian composers
21st-century Italian composers
Movie people from Naples
Sportspeople from Naples
Vimmerby is a city and the seat of Vimmerby Municipality, Kalmar County, Sweden. In 2010, 7,934 people lived there.

References

Other websites

 Vimmerby Municipality - Official website

Settlements in Kalmar County
Nacka is the municipal seat of Nacka Municipality and part of Stockholm urban area in Sweden.

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Settlements in Stockholm County
Tureberg is a neighbourhood in Sollentuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. In 2011, 15,560 people lived there. It is a Stockholm suburb and houses the local government seat for the municipality as well as a large shopping mall and a Stockholm commuter rail station.

Tureberg has also evolved as a law enforcement center for the northern part of metropolitan Stockholm, with police station, court house, prosecutor's office, and a jail, all in buildings built in the 1980s and onwards. The present courthouse was inaugurated in 2010.

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Settlements in Stockholm County
"Who Do You Think You Are" is a 1997 song from Spice Girls. The song's lyrics are about superstar life and how anyone can get trapped in the world of fame. The song has a disco-style beat which resembles music of the late 1970s.

The song was a commercial and critical success. The voice of singer Melanie Chisholm was praised by pop music critics. It became their fourth number one song in Europe and the United Kingdom.

1997 songs
Spice Girls songs
"Spice Up Your Life" is a 1997 dance pop song performed by Spice Girls. This single was from Spice Girls' second album Spiceworld. 

The song received lukewarm reaction from the critics. Despite this, however, the song became a commercial success.

1997 songs
Spice Girls songs
Charles Thomas Payne (February 20, 1925 – August 1, 2014) was an American military personal. He served in the U.S. military during World War II as a member of the U.S. Army's 89th Infantry Division. Payne was in the infantry that freed many Holocaust survivors from Ohrdruf, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Payne was the great-uncle of President Barack Obama.

Payne died in Chicago, Illinois, aged 89.

References

Other websites
 Interview with Der Spiegel

1925 births
2014 deaths
Obama family
World War II people
Military people from Chicago
People from Kansas
Peru is a city in Chautauqua County, Kansas, United States.  As of the 2010 census, the city population was 139.

References

Other websites

 Peru - Directory of Public Officials

Cities in Kansas
Chautauqua County, Kansas
The Vampire Diaries is an American television series. It premiered on September 10, 2009 on The CW. The show ended on March 10, 2017.

References

Other websites
Official website 

2009 American television series debuts
English-language television programs
Pierre Ryckmans (28 September 1935 – 11 August 2014), also known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian diplomat, writer, sinologist, essayist and literary critic. He wrote in many language including Chinese, French and English. He wrote the novel Chinese Shadows (Ombres Chinoises) in 1974 in French, which was later translated to English in 1977. He was also the Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney in Sydney, New South Wales from 1987 until 1993.

Ryckmans was born in Brussels. He studied Chinese culture, art and literature in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. He moved to Australia in 1970. He later taught Chinese in many universities all over the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. He was married and had four children.

Ryckmans died from cancer on 11 August 2014 in Sydney, aged 78.

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Other websites
 

1935 births
2014 deaths
Australian critics
Australian diplomats
Australian essayists
Belgian essayists
Linguists
Belgian translators
University of Sydney faculty
Writers from Brussels
Hova is a locality and one of the two seats of Gullspång Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden, the other is Gullspång. In 2010, 1,288 people lived there.

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Other websites

Settlements in Vastra Gotaland County
Gustavsberg is a locality and the seat of Värmdö Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden. In 2010, 11,333 people lived there. It is most known for its porcelain factory, Gustavsberg porcelain, and toilet bowls distributed nationwide and internationally.

References

Other websites 

  article Gustafsberg from Nordisk familjebok (1909)

Settlements in Stockholm County
Älvdalen is a locality and the seat of Älvdalen Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden. In 2010, 1,810 people lived there.

The town is widely known for being the place of manufacturing, in 1839, of the 4-meter granite vase (called Älvdalen Vase), installed in the Summer Garden in Saint Petersburg (a gift from Charles XIV John of Sweden to Nicholas I of Russia).

References 

Settlements in Dalarna County
Gladys Catherine Horton (May 30, 1945 – January 26, 2011) (various sources cite her year of birth as 1944) was an American R&B and pop musician. She was the lead singer and founder of the all female group The Marvelettes. Their song "Please Mr. Postman" was the first No.1 US hit for Motown Records.

Horton was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She was raised in the Detroit area. Different sources say that she was born in 1943, 1944 or 1945. On 26 January 2011 she died in a Sherman Oaks nursing home. Her death was from complications following a stroke.

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Musicians from Jacksonville, Florida
1945 births
2011 deaths
Annie Girardot (25 October 1931 – 28 February 2011) was a French actress. She played independent, hard-working and lonely women in many of her movies. She played Françoise in Love is a Funny Thing. She also played Marie Louise in Hearth Fires.

Girardot was born in Paris. She died there from Alzheimer's disease at age seventy-nine.

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French television actors
French movie actors
Actors from Paris
1931 births
2011 deaths
"Please Mr. Postman" is the first single of The Marvelettes on the Motown record label. This was the first Motown song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart. The song was released in the summer of 1961.

The song was also recorded by The Carpenters in 1974. Their single also hit #1 on Billboard Hot 100.

References 

1961 songs
Pop songs
The Carpenters songs
The Beatles songs
Ontario Highway 17 is a provincial highway in Ontario, Canada. It is  long. This makes it Ontario's longest highway. It starts on the border with Manitoba, near Kenora. It ends near Arnprior where the highway merges with Ontario Highway 417.

Highway 17 forms the Ontario part of the Trans-Canada Highway.

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10
Julián Berrendero Martín (born San Agustín del Guadalix, 8 April 1912, died Madrid, 1 August 1995) was a Spanish cyclist. He is famous for winning the Vuelta a España in 1941 and 1942. In 1936 he won the polka dot jersey at the Tour de France for the best climber in the race. He also won two mountains jerseys at the Vuelta a España.

Major results
1935
GP de la Bicicleta Eibarresa
Tour of Galicia
1936
GP Republica (incl. 3 stages)
Tour de France:
 Winner Mountains classification
 11th place overall classification
1937
Tour de France:
 Winner stage 15
15th place overall classification
1938
Tour de France:
29th place overall classification
1941
Circuito de Getxo
Vuelta Ciclista a Navarra
Vuelta a España:
Winner stages 1 and 20
 Winner overall classification
1942
 Spanish National Road Race Championship
 Spanish National Cyclo-Cross Championship
Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
Vuelta a España:
 Winner overall classification
 Winner Mountains classification
Winner stages 1 and 9B
1943
 Spanish National Road Race Championship
 Volta a Catalunya
 Trofeo Masferrer
1944
 Spanish National Road Race Championship
 Spanish National Cyclo-Cross Championship
Circuito de Getxo
Clasica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
1945
San Antonio de Durango
Vuelta a España:
 2nd place overall classification
 Winner Mountains classification
Winner stages 1 and 17
1946
1946
 Volta a Catalunya
Vuelta a España:
 2nd place overall classification
Winner stages 4, 18B and 20
1947
Clasica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
Vuelta a España:
Winner stage 3
6th place overall classification
1948
Vuelta a España:
Winner stage 1A
References

Other websites 
Official Tour de France results for Julián Berrendero

1912 births
1995 deaths
Spanish cyclists
Shree Krishna Shrestha (April 19, 1967 – August 10, 2014) () was a Nepalese actor. He achieved nation wide recognition with roles in movies like Maiti and Afno Manche.

Shrestha died in New Delhi, India from pneumonia, aged 44. He is survived by his wife Sweta Khadka, for whom he was married to for only a month.

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1970 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia
Infectious disease deaths in India
Nepalese movie actors
Actors from Kathmandu
Vladimir Beara (2 November 1928 – 11 August 2014) was a Yugoslav football player, as goalkeeper, and also football manager. Beara played for Hajduk Split (1946–55) Beara played 308 games, and helped his team to win the Yugoslav league title in 1950, 1952 and 1955.

Beara died in Split, Croatia, aged 85.

References

Other websites

Vladimir Beara Profile at Reprezentacija.rs
Profile at weltfussball.de

1928 births
2014 deaths
Association football goalkeepers
Yugoslavian footballers
1952 Summer Olympics
First Vienna FC managers
The Schopenhauer Society is a German literary and philosophical society. It is a community that studies the writings, the life, and the influence of the German philosopher,  Arthur Schopenhauer.

The society was formed in 1911 in Frankfurt by Paul Deussen, a Sanskrit scholar. Well-known members were Arthur Hübscher and Alfred Schmidt.

Further reading 
 Andreas Hansert: Schopenhauer im 20. Jahrhundert. Geschichte der Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft. Wien/Köln/Weimar: Böhlau, 2010, . 
 Fabio Ciracì: In lotta per Schopenhauer. La “Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft” fra ricerca filosofica e manipolazione ideologica 1911-1948. Lecce/Iseo (BS): Pensa Multimedia, 2011, .

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German literature
Philosophy
Raymond Gravel (November 4, 1952 – August 11, 2014) was an Canadian Catholic priest from the Canadian province of Quebec. He was formerly the Member of Parliament for the riding of Repentigny, as a member of the Bloc Québécois. He was elected to the House of Commons in a November 27, 2006 by-election following the death of Benoît Sauvageau.

Gravel died of lung cancer in Lanaudière, Quebec. He was 61.

References

Other websites
 Montreal Gazette: "Controversial priest wants Bloc Repentigny nomination" . The Gazette, October 25, 2006.

1952 births
2014 deaths

Cancer deaths in Quebec
Deaths from lung cancer
Politicians from Quebec
Roman Catholic priests
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec
Patrick John "Pat" O'Brien (born February 14, 1948) is an American author and radio host. He was best known for his work as a sportscaster with CBS Sports from 1981 to 1997, as well as his work as the anchor and host of Access Hollywood from 1997 to 2004, and The Insider from 2004 to 2008.

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Living people
American radio personalities
American television personalities
Writers from South Dakota
People from Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Tiburon is an incorporated town in Marin County, California. The population was 9,146 at the 2020 census.

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Other websites

Towns in California
Settlements in Marin County, California
333 Wacker Drive is a skyscraper in Chicago, United States.  It is 149 meters (489 feet) tall and has 36 floors.  It was built in 1979 and opened in 1983. It is one of the tallest buildings in the Chicago that are along the Chicago River.

The building has featured in many movies. Famously, it is in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It was voted Chicago's favorite building by the Chicago Tribune in 1995.

Related pages
 List of tallest buildings in Chicago

Other websites 
 Emporis.com - Park Tower
 SkycraperPage.com – Park Tower

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1983 establishments in the United States
1980s establishments in Illinois
Sam Elliott (b. August 9, 1944) is an American actor. A combination of his tall and slim physique, along with deep resonant voice have led to him being cast as cowboys and ranchers in Westerns. He played General John Buford in Gettysburg. He began doing the voice of Smokey Bear in 2008.

He was born in Sacramento, California.

References

American television actors
American radio actors
American movie actors
Actors from California
1944 births
Living people
111 South Wacker Drive is an office tower in Chicago. Completed in 2005 at 681 feet (208 m), the 51 story blue-glass structure is one of the tallest in the city. It sits on the site of the former U.S. Gypsum Building.

Related pages 
 List of tallest buildings in the United States
 List of tallest buildings in Chicago

Other websites 

 Emporis listing
 Emporis listing for older design
 Official Website 
 Property Magazine International - 111 South Wacker Drive in Chicago receives second LEED gold certification

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2005 establishments in Illinois
77 West Wacker Drive, previously the United Building, is an office building in the Chicago Loop. It was finished in 1992. The building rises to a height of 668 ft (204 m)  with around  of interior space. The building, with 51 floors, was designed by Ricardo Bofill. It was formerly known as the RR Donnelley Building. In 2007, the building became the corporate headquarters of United Airlines.

References

Other websites

77 West Wacker Drive 
Emporis listing
Prime Group Realty Trust
77 West Wacker Drive  - Ricardo Bofill Architecture

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1992 establishments in Illinois
Ricardo Bofill Leví (; 5 December 1939 – 14 January 2022) is a Spanish architect. He works for Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. Bofill was born into a family of builders in 1939 in Barcelona, Spain. He studied at the Barcelona University School of Architecture and graduated from the School of Geneva. 

At the age of seventeen Ricardo Bofill designed his first project, a summer home in Ibiza, and by twenty-three became lead architect of el Taller. Bofill has created over 1000 projects to date in over 50 countries.
Bofill has two sons, both of whom worked with him at Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura: Ricardo Emilio (born 1965) and Pablo (born 1980). He lived in Barcelona together with designer . 

Ricardo Bofill died in Barcelona on 14 January 2022, at the age of 82 from COVID-19.

References

Other websites

 Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura's Website 

1939 births
2022 deaths
Spanish architects
People from Barcelona
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain
Harbor Point Condominiums is a residential and commercial building in Chicago, Illinois, United States, on Lake Michigan. It was built in 1972. Standing nearly  with 54 floors, it is one of the tallest buildings in Chicago. It is located near Navy Pier.

References

Other websites

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1972 establishments in Illinois
340 on the Park is a residential tower in the Lakeshore East development of the neighborhood of New Eastside/ East Loop Chicago. It was completed in 2007. The building was surpassed by 55 East Erie as the tallest all-residential building in Chicago. It is currently the second tallest all-residential building in Chicago (One Museum Park being the current tallest) at 672 feet (205 meters) with 62 floors.

References

Other websites

 Official 340 On the Park website 
Solomon Cordwell Buenz website

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2007 establishments in Illinois
The Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower (BCBS) is located on the north end of Grant Park along E. Randolph Street at the NE corner of Randolph and Columbus Drive, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is home to the headquarters of Health Care Service Corporation.

Other websites
 Phorio listing 
 Emporis listing

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1997 establishments in the United States
2010 establishments in the United States
155 North Wacker is a 48-story skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois designed by Goettsch Partners and was developed by the John Buck Company. It is 638 feet (195 m) tall. It has received LEED silver pre-certification.

References 

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2010 establishments in Illinois
35 East Wacker, also known as the Jewelers' Building, is a 40-story  historic building in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is located at the intersections of Wabash Avenue, and facing the Chicago River. It was built from 1925 to 1927. It was co-designed by Joachim G. Giaver and Frederick P. Dinkelberg.

References

Other websites

Official website

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1927 establishments in Illinois
The Tribune Tower is a neo-Gothic building located at 435 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois, USA.  It is the home of the Chicago Tribune and Tribune Company. It stands at 462 feet (141 m).

The buildings in known for having pieces of famous landmarks across the world including; the World Trade Center, the Berlin Wall, Lincoln's Tomb, the Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China, and The Alamo.

Other websites

Chicago Tribune tower
Saarinen's second place entry 
Tribune Tower could be for sale – Chicago Tribune, June 25, 2008 
Impact of competition entries on skyscraper design

Skyscrapers in Chicago
Landmarks in Chicago
1925 establishments in the United States
1920s establishments in Illinois
The Pittsfield Building,  is a 38-story skyscraper located at 55 E. Washington Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, USA, that was the city's tallest building at the time of its completion.  The building was designated as a Chicago Landmark on November 6, 2002.

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Other websites

Skyscrapers in Chicago
Landmarks in Chicago
1927 establishments in Illinois
The Carbide & Carbon Building is a Chicago landmark located at 230 N. Michigan Avenue. The building, which was built in 1929, is an example of Art Deco architecture.  

It was designed by Burnham Brothers. The architect was Daniel Burnham.  The Carbide and Carbon Building was originally home to the regional office of Union Carbide and Carbon Co., which later became Union Carbide Corp. The skyscraper was designated a Chicago Landmark on May 9, 1996. 

It was built as a skyscraper office tower. The building has 37 floors and is  tall. The top of the building is covered in pure gold. It is also modeled as a champagne bottle to show a resistance against the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.

Other websites

 Chicago Landmarks: Carbide and Carbon Building 
 Carbide & Carbon Building on Emporis
 Hard Rock Hotel Chicago

Skyscrapers in Chicago
Landmarks in Chicago
1929 establishments in Illinois
The Boeing International Headquarters (colloquially known as the Boeing Building and formerly known as the Morton International Building) is a 36-floor skyscraper located in the Near West Side of Chicago. The building has been made the corporate headquarters for Boeing, which decided in 2001 to move to Chicago from Seattle.

References

Other websites
Boeing official website
Emporis listing

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1990 establishments in Illinois
55 East Erie is an all-residential skyscraper in Chicago. It is at 647 ft (197 m). I was designed by Fujikawa Johnson & Associates and Searl & Associates Architects. It is 56 stories tall. The building was completed in 2004. It is the fourth-tallest all-residential building in the United States after Trump World Tower in New York City, One Museum Park in Chicago, and the nearby 340 on the Park completed in 2007 in Chicago.

Other websites
Emporis listing
55 East Erie Condominium Association Website 
Sudler Property Management Website 

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2004 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in Illinois
The Waldorf Astoria Chicago, formerly the Elysian Hotel Chicago, is a luxury hotel located at 11 East Walton Street in the Gold Coast area of Chicago, Illinois. Construction began in 2006 and was open in 2010. It stands at 686 ft (209 m).

Other websites
  Waldorf Astoria Chicago

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2010 establishments in Illinois
Joseph "Joe" Viskocil (December 21, 1952 – August 11, 2014) was an American visual effects artist. He had over 80 credits between 1974 and 2014. His movie credits include Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). For Independence Day (1996), he won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997.

Viskocil died on August 11, 2014 in Los Angeles, California from complications from multiple organ failure, aged 61.

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1952 births
2014 deaths
Deaths from multiple organ failure
Academy Award winners
American artists
Disease-related deaths in Los Angeles
The Home Insurance Building was a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was the first building to be called a skyscraper. It was also the first tall building to be supported, both inside and outside, by a fireproof metal frame. It used to stand at 138 ft (42 m). William Le Baron Jenney designed the building.

History
The Home Insurance Building was built in 1884 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was the first tall building to use structural steel in its frame. Most of its structure was made of cast and wrought iron. While the Ditherington Flax Mill was an earlier fireproof-metal-framed building, it was only five stories tall.

The site
The Field Building, later known as the La Salle Bank Building and now the Bank of America Building, built in 1931, now stands on the site.  In 1932, owners placed a plaque in the southwest section of the lobby reading:
This section of the Field Building is erected on the site of the Home Insurance Building, which structure, designed and built in eighteen hundred and eighty four by the late William Le Baron Jenney, was the first high building to utilize as the basic principle of its design the method known as skeleton construction and, being a primal influence in the acceptance of this principle was the true father of the skyscraper, 1932.

References

Other websites
 Information and Pictures at Emporis (English)
 Information and Drawings at SkyscraperPage (English)

Skyscrapers in Chicago
One Magnificent Mile (or One Mag Mile) is a mixed-use high-rise tower located in Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1983 at the northern end of Michigan Avenue on the Magnificent Mile. It stands at 673.01 ft (205 m).

Related pages
 List of tallest buildings in Chicago

References

Other websites

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1983 establishments in the United States
1980s establishments in Illinois
181 West Madison Street is a skyscraper in Chicago. Built in 1990, the building is 680 feet (207 m) tall and has 50 floors.  It is architect Cesar Pelli's first and only completed tower in the city. The building was originally proposed to be 2,000 foot (610 m), but the size was reduced due to the stock market.

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Official website
Emporis listing

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1990 establishments in Illinois
330 North Wabash (formerly IBM Plaza also known as IBM Building and now renamed AMA Plaza) is a skyscraper in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is at 330 N. Wabash Avenue. It was designed by famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (who died in 1969 before construction began). The 52-story building is overlooking the Chicago River. It stands 695 feet (211,8 meters).

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330 N Wabash building website 
The LanghamChicago website 
Emporis.com page

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1973 establishments in Illinois
The Civic Opera House is an opera house located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. It is part of a building which contains a 45-story office tower and two 22-story wings, known as the Civic Opera Building. This structure opened on November 4, 1929 and has an Art Deco interior.   

The Civic Opera House has 3,563 seats, making it the second-largest opera auditorium in North America. Built for the Chicago Civic Opera, today it is the permanent home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. 

Buildings and structures in Chicago
Opera houses
1929 establishments in Illinois
The Parkshore is a 556ft (169m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1991 and has 56 floors. Barancik Conte designed the building. The Parkshore is the 53rd tallest in Chicago.

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List of tallest buildings in Chicago

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Skyscrapers in Chicago
1991 establishments in Illinois
The Palmolive Building, formerly the Playboy Building, is a 37-story Art Deco building at 919 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago. It was built by Holabird & Root. It was completed in 1929. It was home to the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet corporation.

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Other websites
 Palmolive Building Landmark Residences 
 Palmolive Building 

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1929 establishments in Illinois
Lake Point Tower is a high-rise residential building located on the shore of Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago, just north of the Chicago River at 505 North Lake Shore Drive. It is in the Streeterville neighborhood of the Near North Side community area. The building is also the only skyscraper in downtown Chicago east of Lake Shore Drive. It is 645 ft (197 m) tall.

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Other websites
 Lake Point Tower website
 Emporis listing

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1968 establishments in the United States
1960s establishments in Illinois
The Chicago Temple Building is a 173-meter (568 foot) tall skyscraper church located at 77 W. Washington St. in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is home of the First United Methodist Church of Chicago. It was completed in 1924 and has 23 floors dedicated to religious and office use.

It is the tallest church building in the world, although Ulm Minster is the tallest church in the world.

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Emporis: Chicago Temple Building
SkyscraperPage
First United Methodist Church

Methodism
Cathedrals in the United States
Churches in Chicago
1924 establishments in the United States
1920s establishments in Illinois
One South Dearborn is a 571 ft (174m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was constructed from 2003 to 2005 and has 39 floors. DeStefano Keating Partners designed the building, which is the 47th tallest in Chicago. The current anchor tenant is Sidley Austin LLP, which moved into One South Dearborn in November 2005.

Related pages
List of tallest buildings in Chicago

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Emporis
Skyscraperpage

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2005 establishments in Illinois
The Inland Steel Building, located at 30 W. Monroe Street in Chicago is one of the city's defining commercial high-rises of the post-World War II era of modern architecture. It was built in the years 1956–1957 and was the first skyscraper to be built in the Chicago Loop following the Great Depression of the 1930s. Its principal designers were Bruce Graham and Walter Netsch of the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill architecture firm.

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Inland Steel Building - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 
Inland Steel Building Renovation - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill 

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1957 establishments in the United States
1950s establishments in Illinois
190 South LaSalle Street is a 573 ft (175m) tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It was completed in 1987 and has 40 floors. Johnson/Burgee Architects designed the building, which is the 57th tallest building in Chicago.

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List of tallest buildings in Chicago

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Skyscrapers in Chicago
1987 establishments in Illinois
The Fordham is one of the tallest residential buildings in Chicago. The 52-story building was completed in 2003 at a height of 574 ft (175 m) and features a château-like roof.  It was designed by Solomon, Cordwell, Buenz and Associates and developed by the Fordham Company.

The Fordham contains some of the most expensive residential units in Chicago with penthouses occupying the top ten floors of the building.

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List of tallest buildings in Chicago

Other websites
Emporis listing
Official website

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2003 establishments in Illinois
The Grant (formerly One Museum Park West) is the companion structure to One Museum Park in the Near South Side community area (neighborhood) in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is located at the north end of the Central Station development. It stands at 181 metres (594 ft).

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Official website
Emporis listing
Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance website

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2010 establishments in Illinois
Union Station is a major railroad station that opened in 1925 in Chicago. It replaced an earlier station built in 1881.  It is now the only intercity rail terminal in Chicago, as well as being the city's primary terminal for commuter trains. 

The station stands on the west side of the Chicago River between West Adams Street and West Jackson Boulevard, just outside the Chicago Loop. Including approach and storage tracks, it is about nine and a half city blocks in size. Its facilities are mostly underground, buried beneath streets and skyscrapers. It is located near the Willis Tower.

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Railway stations in the United States
Buildings and structures in Chicago
1925 establishments in Illinois
Holy Name Cathedral, formally the Cathedral of the Holy Name, is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, one of the largest Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States. It is also the parish church of the Archbishop of Chicago.

It is located in Chicago, Illinois in the United States, Holy Name Cathedral replaced the Cathedral of Saint Mary and the Church of the Holy Name, both destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire in October 1871. The cathedral was finally dedicated on November 21, 1875.

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Roman Catholic cathedrals
National Register of Historic Places
Cathedrals in the United States
Churches in Chicago
Landmarks in Chicago
1874 establishments in the United States
1870s establishments in Illinois
1843 establishments in Illinois
Christianity in the United States
Chicago
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago () was established as a diocese in 1843 and as an archdiocese in 1880. This local church is shepherded by Blase J. Cupich. It is one of the largest Roman Catholic dioceses in the United States.

Leadership: Pope Francis, Cardinal Blase Cupich
Michael Louis Pfleger (born May 22, 1949) is an American Roman Catholic priest and a social activist. He is a very known priest in Chicago, Illinois. He was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago on May 14, 1975.

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Saint Sabina Parish Website
Saint Sabina biography of Michael Pfleger

1949 births
Living people
American Roman Catholic priests
People from Chicago
Madison Plaza is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. The building rises 599 feet (182 m) in the Chicago Loop. It has 45 floors. It was completed in 1982. Madison Plaza currently stands as the 36th-tallest building in the city.

Related pages
 List of tallest buildings in Chicago

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Other websites
 Images of the "Dawn Shadows" sculpture

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1982 establishments in the United States
1980s establishments in Illinois
Millennium Centre is a postmodern skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois in the city's Near North Side neighborhood. The building rises 610 feet (186 m). It contains 59 floors, and was completed in 2003.

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 Official website

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2003 establishments in Illinois
Chicago Place is a mixed-use high-rise on the 700 block of North Michigan Avenue (between Huron and Superior) in Chicago along the Magnificent Mile anchored by Saks Fifth Avenue. Above that is a tower containing condominiums.

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Emporis Listing

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1991 establishments in Illinois
353 North Clark is a  tall skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. The building began construction in 2007 and was completed in 2009. It has 45 floors with a total of  of floorspace.

Related pages
List of tallest buildings in Chicago

Other websites
 Official website
 353 North Clark on Emporis
 353 North Clark Skyscraperpage

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2007 establishments in Illinois
The NBC Tower is an office tower on the Near North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States located at 454 North Columbus Drive (455 North Cityfront Plaza is also used as a vanity address for the building) in downtown Chicago's Magnificent Mile area. 

It was completed in 1989, the 37-story building reaches a height of 627 feet (191 m). NBC's Chicago offices, studios, and owned-and-operated station WMAQ-TV are located here as of 1989. Formerly its former radio sister WMAQ/WSCR was located here. WSNS-TV is also located here.

Other websites
Emporis listing
Official website
Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
WMAQ's official website
WSCR's official website 

Skyscrapers in Chicago
1989 establishments in Illinois
The Heritage at Millennium Park is a skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. It is located at 130 N. Garland Court. It is a mixed-use tower. Completed in 2005, with a height of 631 feet and 57 floors.

Other websites
The Heritage at Millennium Park Condominium Sales & Rental Website
Condominium Association website

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2005 establishments in Illinois
Maria Magdalena "Lena" Philipsson (also known as Lena PH; born January 19, 1966) is a Swedish singer and media personality. She represented Sweden in the 2004 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song It Hurts finishing fifth. Scoring successes participating att Melodifestivalen in  1986, 1987 and 1988, she followed it up with successful album My Name that included top hits "Standing In My Rain", "Why" and "Leave A Light". In 1991 she recorded a concept album and show about a female secret agent, 'Agent 006'. In 2001 she had a stage comeback, the Lena Philipsson Show was sold out for two and a half years around Sweden. In 2004, she returned after a seven year hiatus from the album charts.

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1966 births
Living people
Swedish singers
River East Center is a Chicago skyscraper. It is a part of the larger River East complex. The tower, containing 620 condominium units, is 644 feet (196 m) tall with 58 floors, and was completed in 2001.

Related pages
List of tallest buildings in the United States
List of tallest buildings in Chicago

Other websites
Emporis listing
Archive of Official Website

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2001 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in Illinois
Allstate Arena (originally Rosemont Horizon) is a multi-purpose arena in Rosemont, Illinois. It is home to the Chicago Rush of the Arena Football League, DePaul University's men's basketball team, the Chicago Wolves of the AHL, and the Chicago Sky of the WNBA.  It is located near the intersection of Mannheim Road and Interstate 90, adjacent to the city limits of Chicago and O'Hare International Airport.

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Official Website
DePaul Athletics - Allstate Arena 

Buildings and structures in Chicago
1980 establishments in the United States
1980s establishments in Illinois
Carola Maria Häggkvist (; born 8 September 1966), also known as simply Carola, is a Swedish singer and occasional songwriter. She has been among Sweden's most popular performers since the early 1980s, and has released albums ranging from pop and disco to hymns and folk music. Some of her greatest hits include Främling (English: Stranger) from 1983, Tommy tycker om mig (Tommy likes me) from 1984, Fångad av en stormvind (Captured by a Lovestorm) from 1991, All the Reasons to Live from 1992, I Believe in Love from 2001, Genom allt (Through it all) from 2005 and Evighet (Eternity) from 2006.

She has represented Sweden at the Eurovision Song Contest on three occasions: in 1983, finishing third; in 1991, winning the contest; and in 2006, finishing fifth, which makes her one of the artists with the best track record in Eurovision history.

Carola has released records in various languages: Swedish, Dutch,  German,  English, Norwegian and Japanese.

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1966 births
Living people
Swedish singers
Eurovision Song Contest entrants
Eurovision Song Contest winners
Naples is an incorporated town in Scott County in the U.S. state of Illinois. The population was 100 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area.

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Towns in Illinois
One North Wacker, formerly UBS Tower is a 50-story,  skyscraper at One North Wacker Drive in Chicago, Illinois. Construction began in 1999 and was completed in the spring of 2002.

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Other websites
One North Wacker  at Hines Interests Limited Partnership
One North Wacker Architecture  at Enclos

Skyscrapers in Chicago
2002 establishments in the United States
2000s establishments in Illinois
The Metropolitan Tower, owned by Metropolitan Properties of Chicago, is a skyscraper located at 310 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago's East Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District in the Loop community area in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The size of the building is  to .

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Skyscrapers in Chicago
Mather Tower (later Lincoln Tower) is a Neo-Gothic, terra cotta-clad high-rise structure in Chicago, Illinois, USA.  It is located at 75 East Wacker Drive in the downtown "loop" area, adjacent to the Chicago River.

Other websites
 Page at ChicagoArchitecture.info 
 Chicago Landmarks: Mather Tower 
 Emporis listing

Skyscrapers in Chicago
The Michigan Avenue Bridge (officially DuSable Bridge) is a bascule bridge that carries Michigan Avenue across the main stem of the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States. Construction of the bridge started in 1918, it opened to traffic in 1920, and decorative work was completed in 1928.

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Bridges in Chicago
1920 establishments in the United States
1920s establishments in Illinois
The Clark Street Bridge is a bascule bridge that spans the Chicago River in downtown Chicago, connecting the Near North Side with The Loop.

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Bridges in Chicago
1929 establishments in Illinois
The Dearborn Street Bridge over the Chicago River was built in 1962. It connects the Near North Side with "The Loop."  The American Institute of Steel Construction honored the bridge with the 1963 "Most Beautiful Steel Bridge" award in the Movable Span category.

Bridges in Chicago
1962 establishments in the United States
1960s establishments in Illinois
The La Salle Street Bridge (or Marshall Suloway Bridge) is a single-deck double-leaf trunnion bascule bridge spanning the main stem of the Chicago River in Chicago, Illinois, that connects the Near North Side with the Loop area. It was constructed in 1928.

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Bridges in Chicago
1928 establishments in Illinois