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| Title | View along Chicago River towards the Thompson Center and Ryan Insurance (55 West Wacker) |
| Creator | Naess & Murphy (Chicago, Ill.)
Goldberg, Bertrand
Murphy/Jahn (Firm)
C.F. Murphy Associates (Chicago, Ill.)
Holabird & Root, and Rebori, Andrew N.
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| Description | View to the west along the Chicago River, with tour boats moored along its south bank. Part of 35 East Wacker Drive (formerly Pure Oil Building, North American Life Building, Jewelers Building), and the United of America Insurance Building (now Unitrin Building) are on the left. The former Sun-Times Building is on the right, on the north side of the river, with the IBM Building and Marina City rising behind it. The Wabash Avenue bridge is visible in the middle distance, with the James R. Thompson Center (State of Illinois Building), Ryan Insurance Building (originally Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building, now 55 West Wacker), and the LaSalle-Wacker building (221 North LaSalle Street) behind it. |
| Notes | Brubaker, C. William, 1984 |
| Date | 1930 (LaSalle-Wacker Building); 1955-1958 (Sun-Times Building); 1964 (Marina City); 1968 (Blue Cross-Blue Shield Building, 55 West Wacker); 1985 (Thompson Center) |
| Geographic coverage | Loop (Chicago, Ill.)
Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)
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| Community Area Number | 32; 8 |
| Subject | high-rise buildings
office buildings
commercial buildings
printing plants
riverfronts
watercraft
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| Language | English
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| Type | Image
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| Form | architecture
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| View Description | general 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 | bru008_02_gF |
