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| Title | Chicago Tribune Freedom Center under construction |
| Creator | Teng and Associates
Schmidt, Garden & Martin
Yamasaki, Minoru, 1912-1986
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| Description | View of the Chicago Tribune printing plant under construction, looking northeast from West Erie Street at North Union Avenue. The plant, named the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center, is located adjacent to the west bank of the North Branch of the Chicago River at 777 West Chicago Avenue. Visible to the right of it are the Montgomery Ward Catalog and Retail Sales building (Mail Order House), the Montgomery Ward Administration building, and the Montgomery Ward & Company Headquarters tower (now The Montgomery condominiums, 535 West Chicago Avenue/ 500 West Superior Street). |
| Notes | Photo credit: Brubaker, C. William, 1980 |
| Date | 1908 (Montgomery Ward Catalog and Retail Sales building); 1972 (Montgomery Ward headquarters); 1982 (Chicago Tribune Freedom Center) |
| Geographic coverage | Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
West Town (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 8; 24 |
| Subject | industrial buildings
printing plants
construction
commercial buildings
office buildings
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| Language | English
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| Type | Image
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| Form | architecture
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| View Description | exterior view |
| Physical Description | 35 mm. slide |
| Collection | C. William Brubaker Collection (University of Illinois at Chicago)
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| Repository | University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. [Visual Resources]. |
| Citation | Cite as [creator]. [title]. [file name]. [collection]. |
| Rights | The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture and the Arts holds reproduction and licensing rights. For more information, please email: lib-permissions@uic.edu. |
| Downloads | Downloads of larger files for this image are available from the C. William Brubaker set in the UIC Library Flickr collections at http://www.flickr.com/photos/uicdigital/sets/72157625021131144/. |
| File Name | bru009_02_nF |
