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CHIC A GO AREA B Y AREA  41

DOWNTOWN

Bordered on the north and on the west by Great Fire of 1871, a mere two decades
the Chicago River, on the east by Lake later it had been rebuilt with pioneering
Michigan, and on the south by the Congress skyscrapers, including the Marquette
Parkway, Downtown is Chicago’s historic and Building. Along with this architectural
financial center. The downtown’s nucleus is legacy, the area is home to such famous
the Loop, named for the elevated train museums as The Art Institute of Chicago.
tracks encircling it. Even though the area State Street is home to landmark
was completely destroyed by the department stores.

Sights at a Glance
Historic Buildings Modern Skyscrapers Restaurants pp148–9
2 The Rookery 1 Willis Tower 1 Acanto
3 Marquette Building 4 Federal Center 2 Aria
5 Monadnock Building o R. R. Donnelley Building 3 Artist’s Café
6 Auditorium Building p James R. Thompson 4 Atwood Café
7 Fine Arts Building Center 5 Cafecito
8 Santa Fe Building a 333 West Wacker Drive 6 Catch35
0 Sullivan Center Museums and Galleries 7 Frontera Fresco
q Reliance Building 8 Heaven on Seven
w Macy’s 9 The Art Institute of 9 Italian Village
Chicago pp48–51
e Oriental Theater 10 Lockwood
y Chicago Theatre r Chicago Cultural Center 11 Miller’s Pub
i 35 East Wacker Drive Bridges, Parks, and 12 Morton’s The Steakhouse
Streets 13 Native Foods Café
t Millennium Park 14 Park Grill
u Michigan Avenue Bridge 15 Pastoral
s Wacker Drive 16 Petterino’s
17 Pizano’s Pizza
18 Plymouth Pub
19 Rosebud Prime
0 meters 500
20 Russian Tea Time
0 yards 500 21 The Gage
22 Trattoria No.10
See also Street Finder
maps 3 & 4 Chicago River
E WACKER DRIVE
WEST WACKER DRIVE NORTH
W HADDOCK PL S WATER STREET
Clark/ State/ NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE E SOUTH WATER ST COL N FIELD BLVD NORTH HARBOR DRIVE
POST PL
WEST LAKE ST Lake Lake
Lake NORTH LAKE SH O RE D RIVE
BENTON PLACE
N WELLS ST
Randolph/
WEST RANDOLPH ST NORTH STATE STREET Wabash
EAST RANDOLPH STREET
NORTH STETSON AVENUE
N LASALLE ST
Washington/ NORTH CLARK STREET N GARLAND COURT Millennium
Wells Washington Station MAGGIE
WEST WASHINGTON ST
MILLENNIUM DALEY PARK
WEST CALHOUN PLACE PARK
NORTH FRANKLIN STREET
NORTH WABASH AVE
NORTH DEARBORN STREET
WEST MADISON STREET
NORTH WACKER DRIVE
1 •21
Monroe Madison/
WEST MONROE STREET S LASALLE ST Wabash EAST MONROE DRIVE
GRANT
WEST ADAMS STREET SOUTH CLARK STREET S DEARBORN STREET SOUTH STATE ST Adams/ PARK
Wabash
Quincy W QUINCY ST SOUTH MICHIGAN AVENUE EAST LAKE STREET UMBUS DRIVE S OU TH COLUMBUS DRIVE
SOUTH WACKER DRIVE
WEST JACKSON BOULEVARD Jackson EAST JACKSON DRIVE SOUTH LAKE SHORE DRIVE
LaSalle/ Harold Washington Van
Buren
Library
Van Buren E VAN BUREN ST Street
E CONGRESS PKWY E CONGRESS DR
Skyscrapers lining the waterfront in Chicago’s Downtown area For keys to symbols see back flap
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