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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW66_continental-and-commercial-bank-building_Chicago-IL.html
Chicago Landmark
This massive block-long office building was built to house one of Chicago's leading banks and exemplifies the large commercial buildings that define the distinctive LaSalle Street "canyon." Architect Daniel Burnham personally s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW5H_site-of-the-haymarket-tragedy_Chicago-IL.html
(plaque 1)On the evening of May 4th, 1886, a tragedy of international significance unfolded on this site in Chicago's Haymarket produce district. An outdoor meeting had been hastily organized by anarchist activists to protest the violent death of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW5F_chicago-north-western-railway-powerhouse_Chicago-IL.html
Chicago Landmark
The Powerhouse is the best-surviving building associated with the Chicago and North Western Railway, one of the city's most prominent historic railroads. While a utilitarian building, this grandly-scaled example of the Beaux-Ar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW5E_site-of-the-sauganash-hotel-wigwam_Chicago-IL.html
On this site stood the Sauganash Hotel, built in 1831 by pioneer Mark Beaubien, which was location of the frontier town's first village board election in 1833. The Wigwam, an assembly hall built in 1860 (destroyed c. 1867) on the site of the hotel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW5D_first-post-office_Chicago-IL.html
Near this site in 1833, the log store of John S.C. Hogan, was this section's only post office, serving settler from miles around. Eastern mail was delivered once a week from Niles, Michigan.Erected byChicago's Charter JubileeAuthenticated by Chica…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW4L_wacker-drive_Chicago-IL.html
South Water Street 183[?]South Water Street 1924
Wacker DriveBegun 1924 Completed 1926
Built by the City of ChicagoWm. E. DeverMayorFrancis X. BuschCorporation CounselBoard of Local ImprovementJohn J. SloanPresidentFrank X. Rydzewski, V. Pre…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW4I_hubbards-folly_Chicago-IL.html
On this site about 1834, Gurdon S. Hubbard built Chicago's first warehouse for storing pork and other pioneer produce. Because of its size and substantial construction early skeptics called the building "Hubbard's Folly."
Erected byChicago's Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW4H_south-water-street_Chicago-IL.html
This was Chicago's main business street in 1834, connecting the village with Fort Dearborn. Years before this also was the site of a trading post with the Indians.
Erected byChicago's Charter JubileeAuthenticated by Chicago Historical Society19…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW4B_chicago-river_Chicago-IL.html
This river originally flowing eastward from the prairie home lands of the Potawatomi and other Indian tribes into Lack Michigan, linked the waters of the Atlantic, the St. Lawrence and the Great Lakes with those of the Illinois, the Mississippi an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMW49_rene-robert-cavalier-sieur-de-la-salle_Chicago-IL.html
In honor of Rene Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle & Henry de Tonti who passed through this river on their way to the Mississippi December 1681This Tablet is placed by the Illinois Society of Colonial Dames of America under the auspices of the Chi…