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e Marina City and
IBM Building
Marina City: 300 N State St.
Map 1 C5. q State and Lake.
Open 24 hrs daily. 7 0 h IBM
Building: 330 N Wabash Ave.
Map 2 D5. q State and Lake.
Open 24 hrs daily. 7
The two towers of Marina
City pay symbolic tribute
to the Midwest’s farming
economy – they look like
giant corncobs. Designed by
Bertrand Goldberg Associates Shops and galleries lining the streets of the River North Gallery District
and opened in 1967, these r River North
twin circular towers function and banker, this Italian
like a city within a city, with Gallery District Renaissance palazzo
apartments, offices, shops, Between N Wells & N Orleans Sts., was designed in 1883 by
parking, a marina, and even from W Erie St to W Chicago Ave. Map Chicago church-architects
a bowling alley. 1 B4. q Chicago (Brown, Purple Burling and Whitehouse
To the east of Marina City, Lines). 8 (312) 649-0065. See Shops and, after restoration, is
and in stark contrast to its and Markets: pp158–63. now a museum.
organic form, rises the IBM The mansion has 23 rooms
Building, a sleek modern River North is home to more on its three floors, each room
monument. Designed by than 65 art galleries – the seemingly more opulent
Mies van der Rohe (see p32) largest concentration outside than the next. More than 20
with C.F. Murphy Associates New York City. Some of varieties of marble, along with
and opened in 1971, the Chicago’s finest antique and onyx and alabaster, were used
52-story office tower has an home-furnishing shops are to build the main hall and
exposed steel frame and dark also located here. great staircase. Even the ceiling
bronze-tinted glass walls. West Superior Street is the is marble. The largest room is
A small bust of Mies van center of the district. Galleries the first-floor Picture Gallery,
der Rohe, who died before here and on adjoining streets illuminated by a domed,
construction of the building offer a wide range of artwork Tiffany leaded-glass skylight.
was complete, is located in the by both international and Across the street, the Ransom
lobby. In winter, the exterior local artisans. Unusual pieces R. Cable House now quarters
plaza can be quite bleak and by American folk artists, a securities and capital
frigid. There are ropes strung African-American art, glass management corporation.
to prevent people from being sculpture, photography, and Designed by Cobb and Frost,
blown into the Chicago River. contempo rary paintings are the 1886 Richardsonian
just some of the treasures to Romanesque (see p28) mansion
be found. Most galleries are was built for the president of
closed Sundays and Mondays. the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific Railway Company.
It features rough-hewn
t Richard H. rusticated masonry. Both
Driehaus Museum houses are designated as
Chicago landmarks.
and Ransom R.
Cable Houses
40 & 25 E Erie St. Map 2 D4.
q Chicago (Red Line); Grand (Red
Line). Nickerson House: Open
10am–5pm Tue–Sun. Cable House:
Closed major public hols.
∑ driehausmuseum.org
The Richard H. Driehaus
Museum offers a glimpse into
the wealthy world of late-
1800s Chicago high society.
Marina City’s twin towers, flanked on the Commissioned by Samuel Charming coach house belonging to the
right by the IBM Building Nickerson, a distillery owner Ransom R. Cable House

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