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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I8E_jean-baptiste-pointe-dusable_Chicago-IL.html
African-Caribbean, born in St.Marc, Haiti
In the 1770's he opened the first trading post,
beside the Chicago River, establishing
the settlement that became Chicago.
The DuSable homestead was located near this site.
This monument was given t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DBX_jean-baptiste-beaubien_Chicago-IL.html
On this site, then the lake shore, Jean Baptiste Beaubien, Chicago's second civilian, in 1817, built a "mansion" to which he brought his bride, Josette LaFramboise. It remained their home until 1845.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHW_site-of-the-first-self-sustaining-controlled-nuclear-chain-reaction_Chicago-IL.html
Physicist Enrico Fermi and his colleagues established the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction in makeshift laboratories constructed under the grandstands of Stagg Field Stadium on December 2, 1942. The success of this experiment ushe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHI_american-book-company-building_Chicago-IL.html
This handsome building originally served as the Midwest office, warehouse and distribution center of the American Book Company, a nationally-prominent textbook publisher. Typical of industrial architecture of its time, this reinforced-concrete bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHH_the-platt-luggage-building_Chicago-IL.html
The Platt Luggage Building, originally located at 2301 South Prairie Avenue, was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw for the publishing company originally owned by H. H. Forsythe. Howard Van Doren Shaw was one of the region's most successful and pop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHF_wheeler-kohn-house_Chicago-IL.html
A rare survivor of the stately mansions built on the Near South Side prior to the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, this also ranks as one of the city's best examples of Second Empire architecture. Built by banker Calvin Wheeler, it was remodeled in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHE_second-presbyterian-church_Chicago-IL.html
When this neo-Gothic church was designed by a prominent New York architect, the surrounding streets, including Prairie Avenue one block east, were lined with the homes of wealthy Chicagoans. The fine interior decorations recall the congregation th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHB_henry-b-clarke-house_Chicago-IL.html
Known as the widow Clarke's house, this is Chicago's oldest building and its only surviving example of the Greek Revival style fashionable in the early 1800s.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BHA_john-j-glessner-house_Chicago-IL.html
A mature Richardsonian design, Glessner House is famous for its site development, innovative floor plan and rugged Romanesque facade. Glessner House, a reminder of the fabulous Prairie Avenue era, is the only remaining Chicago building by this ren…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AQV_philip-rogers-home-site_Chicago-IL.html
Philip Rogers, born in Ireland, came to Rogers Park about 1834 and bought 1600 acres from the government. First lived in a log house at Lunt and Western Avenues. Died in 1856. Village named after him in 1844.