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the news paper whose offices still
occupy the building. Look closely at
the facade, which is embedded with
over 120 stones collected by corre-
spondents from famed sights.
There’s a rock hailing from each of
the 50 states, as well as fragments
from inter national monuments such
as Greece’s Parthenon, India’s Taj
Mahal, and The Great Wall of China.
River North
7
Gallery District
MAP K3 • Bounded by Merchandise
Mart (south), Chicago Ave. (north),
Orleans Ave. (west), Dearborn St. (east)
• Chicago Gallery News: 312-649-
0064; www.chicagogallerynews.com
Said to be the most con centrated art
Aerial view, Gold Coast Area hub in the US outside of Manhattan,
this district is jammed with galleries.
Gold Coast Area
5 Most are found in the handsome,
19th-century converted brick
MAP K1
Chicago boasts many upscale ware houses found alongside the
neighborhoods, but none more “L” brown line. Huron and Superior
historic and presti gious than the streets are particularly worth a visit.
Gold Coast. Rail road, retail, and
Chicago Water Works
lumber tycoons built this elegant 8
district in the decades following the and Pumping Station
Great Fire of 1871 (see p40), and MAP L2 • Water Works and Pumping
its leafy streets are lined with Station: 163 E. Pearson St. & 806 N.
19th-century mansions interspersed Michigan Ave. • Visitor Center: open
with early 20th- century apartment 7:30am–7pm Mon–Thu; 312-337-
buildings. There are no fewer than 0665; www.choosechicago.com • City
300 designated historic landmarks in Gallery: open 10am–6:30pm daily;
the Astor Street District alone, 312-742-0808; DA
including buildings by Stanford When the Great Fire of 1871 swept
White (such as 20 E. Burton north, only the 1869 Water Works
Place), and Charnley House and Pumping Station escaped.
(1365 N. Astor Street), designed Built by William W. Botington,
by Louis Sullivan (assisted at the the castellated Gothic-Revival
time by Frank Lloyd Wright). Water Works was modeled after
a medieval castle. It now houses
Tribune Tower
6 the Chicago Visitor Center and
MAP L3 • 435 N
the Lookingglass Theatre (see
Michigan Ave. p55), and the fountain and
Topped by flying buttresses, chairs outside make it a
this Gothic-style building focal point for street life. The
was completed in 1925. functioning Pumping Station
Its faux-historic design across the street houses
had won a competition the City Gallery,
organized by which specializes
Colonel Robert in photography.
McCormick,
publisher of the Chicago Water
Chicago Tribune, Works

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