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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
Please tell me that Chuck Atwood's spectacular masterpiece, The Reliance Building, is also included in this.
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This is the biggest omission in the list I believe. Though if it was actually nominated there would be a process to assess the list to see if any important structures were missing from the designation and it could be added then. I would really hope it would be.
The stretch of early skyscrapers along Dearborn from Ida B Wells to Adams is my favorite and if the Home Insurance Building wasn’t demolished it would have been nearby at Adams and Lasalle.
The Rookery still holds the opposite corner from the former Home Insurance building site and it’s a beauty with the interior light court having been redesigned by Frank Lloyd Wright at the turn of the 20th century.
This is a pretty decent tour of this stretch that reminded me of its potential.
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