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Hace 6 días · The Home Insurance Building was a 138-foot (42 m) tall, 10-story skyscraper designed by William Le Baron Jenney, who had been trained as an engineer in France and was a leading architect in Chicago.
Hace 3 días · The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.
Hace 2 días · Chicago is often held up as the home of the world’s very first skyscraper. The Home Insurance building was finished in 1885, soaring to a then-towering 138 feet and 10 stories. The building’s ...
Hace 3 días · Meanwhile, a host of talented architects that included Louis Sullivan, Dankmar Adler, William Holabird, Daniel H. Burnham, John Wellborn Root, and William Le Baron Jenney, who had been attracted to Chicago by the postfire rebuilding opportunities, stayed on in the 1880s to design a new generation of even taller downtown buildings.
Hace 2 días · List of people from Chicago. The following list includes notable people who were born or have lived in Chicago, Illinois. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Chicago, Illinois .
Hace 5 días · The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 celebrated the 400th anniversay of the discovery of the New World by Columbus. Answer: True Many cities bid for the World's Fair and it was thought that New York had the inside track but Chicago won the contest in a close vote.
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