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Name of the site
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image
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year
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place
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county
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description
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1
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Robert S. Abbott House
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 48 ′ 29 " N , 87 ° 36 ′ 58.1" W.41.808068 -87.616135
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Cook County
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Home of Robert Sengstacke Abbott , founder of the Chicago Defender newspaper
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2
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Adler Planetarium
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1987
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Chicago 41 ° 51 '59.2 " N , 87 ° 36" 26.7 " W.41.866454 -87.607416
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Cook County
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First and oldest planetarium in the western hemisphere
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3
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Auditorium building
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1975
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 32.7 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 27.7" W.41.875756 -87.62437
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Cook County
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Designed by the architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan
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4th
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Bishop Hill Colony
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1970
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Bishop Hill 41 ° 12 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 90 ° 7 ′ 8 ″ W.41.2003 -90.1189
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Henry County
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Historic district of Swedish immigrants dating back to its founding in 1846
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5
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Cahokia Mounds
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1964
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Collinsville 38 ° 39 '14 " N , 90 ° 3' 52" W.38.653889 -90.064444
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St. Clair County
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Largest archaeological site of the Mississippi culture
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6th
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Sullivan Center
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1975
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 54.8 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 40" W.41.881894 -87.62778
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Cook County
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Building designed by the architect Louis Sullivan and later named after him
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7th
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James Charnley House
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1998
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Chicago 41 ° 54'26.2 " N , 87 ° 37'39.3" W.41.907264 -87.627597
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Cook County
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Designed
jointly by architects Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright |
8th
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Chicago Board of Trade Building
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1978
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 41.2 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 55.7" W.41.878123 -87.632131
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Cook County
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Skyscraper designed by Holabird & Roche and built in 1930 for the Chicago Board of Trade
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9
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Church of the Holy Family
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1970
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Cahokia 38 ° 34 ′ 13.3 " N , 90 ° 11 ′ 18.4" W.38.57035 -90.18844
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St. Clair County
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Church built in 1799
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10
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Columbus Park
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2003
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 26 " N , 87 ° 46 ′ 11" W.41.873889 -87.769722
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Cook County
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Part of the Chicago Park District
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11
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Arthur Compton House
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 32.8 " N , 87 ° 35 ′ 46.5" W.41.792435 -87.596263
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Cook County
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Home of Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton
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12
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Coonley House
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1970
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Riverside 41 ° 49 ′ 7.1 " N , 87 ° 49 ′ 43" W.41.818629 -87.828618
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Cook County
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Designed
by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright |
13
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Crow Island School
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1990
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Winnetka 42 ° 6 ′ 4 ″ N , 87 ° 44 ′ 46 ″ W.42.101111 -87.746113
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Cook County
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School building designed
by Larry Perkins and Eliel Saarinen |
14th
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Dana-Thomas House
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1976
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Springfield 39 ° 47 '38.1 " N , 89 ° 39' 7.5" W.39.79393 -89.652075
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Sangamon County
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Building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
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15th
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David Davis Mansion
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1975
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Bloomington 40 ° 28 '53.8 " N , 88 ° 58' 49.5" W.40.481624 -88.980419
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McLean County
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Former home of David Davis
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16
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Charles G. Dawes House
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1976
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Evanston 42 ° 2 '33.1 " N , 87 ° 40' 23.1" W.42.042526 -87.673084
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Cook County
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Former home of Charles Gates Dawes , after which the Dawes plan was named
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17th
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John Deere House and Shop
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1964
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Grand Detour 41 ° 53 ′ 47.8 " N , 89 ° 24 ′ 52.7" W.41.896618 -89.414648
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Ogle County
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Site of the invention of the first steel plow by John Deere
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18th
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Oscar Stanton De Priest House
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1975
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Chicago 41 ° 48 '35.2 " N , 87 ° 37' 4.6" W.41.809769 -87.617957
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Cook County
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Home of Oscar Stanton De Priest , an African-American Republican member of the US House of Representatives
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19th
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Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable Homesite
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 53 '15.9 " N , 87 ° 37'24.3" W.41.887739 -87.623409
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Cook County
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Home of the fur trader Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , who is now considered the first permanent resident of what is now Chicago
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20th
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Eads Bridge
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1964
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East St. Louis 38 ° 37 ′ 38.7 " N , 90 ° 11 ′ 8.1" W.38.627417 -90.185585
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St. Clair County
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Combined road and rail bridge over the Mississippi ; the longest arch bridge when it was completed in 1874; also listed in Missouri
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21st
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Farm Creek Section
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1997
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East Peoria 40 ° 40 ′ 31.8 " N , 89 ° 29 ′ 23.3" W.40.6755 -89.4898
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Tazewell County
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Site of exposed geological strata
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22nd
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Farnsworth House
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2006
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Plano 41 ° 38 ′ 6 ″ N , 88 ° 32 ′ 8.6 ″ W.41.634989 -88.535722
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Kendall County
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Country house designed
by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe |
23
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Pleasant Home
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1996
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Oak Park 41 ° 53 ′ 7 ″ N , 87 ° 48 ′ 2 ″ W.41.885278 -87.800556
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Cook County
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Even as John Farson House known house by architect W. George Maher was designed
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24
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Fort de Chartres
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1960
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Prairie du Rocher 38 ° 5 '4.7 " N , 90 ° 9' 28.7" W.38.084652 -90.157968
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Randolph County
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French fort built in 1720, whose powder magazine is one of the oldest surviving buildings in Illinois
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25th
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Fort Sheridan Historic District
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1984
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Fort Sheridan 42 ° 12 ′ 45 " N , 87 ° 48 ′ 38" W.42.2125 -87.810556
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Lake County
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Originally from the US Army erected a military post
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26th
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John J. Glessner House
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 51 '28.4 " N , 87 ° 37' 14.8" W.41.857886 -87.620784
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Cook County
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House designed in
1886 by architect Henry Hobson Richardson |
27
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Ulysses S. Grant Home
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1960
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Galena 42 ° 24 '36.4 " N , 90 ° 25' 22.5" W.42.410104 -90.422924
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Jo Daviess County
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Home of Ulysses S. Grant , Commander in Chief of the Union Army in the Civil War and later 18th US President
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Big Point Lighthouse
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1999
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Evanston 42 ° 3 ′ 50 " N , 87 ° 40 ′ 34" W.42.063889 -87.676111
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Cook County
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Lighthouse built in 1873 on the shores of Lake Michigan
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29
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Haymarket Martyrs' Monument
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1997
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Forest Park 41 ° 50 ′ 27 " N , 87 ° 49 ′ 9.4" W.41.8408442 -87.8192813
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Cook County
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Memorial to the victims of the Haymarket massacre at German Waldheim Cemetery
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30th
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Hegeler Carus Mansion
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2007
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La Salle 41 ° 20 '9 " N , 89 ° 5' 13.4" W.41.335836 -89.087053
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LaSalle County
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Designed by Chicago architect William W. Boyington
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31
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Isidore H. Heller House
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2004
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Chicago 41 ° 48 '4.8 " N , 87 ° 35" 49.5 " W.41.801333 -87.597089
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Cook County
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House of banker Isidore H. Heller designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright
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32
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Arthur Heurtley House
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2000
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Oak Park 41 ° 53 ′ 33.8 " N , 87 ° 47 ′ 59.4" W.41.892722 -87.799822
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Cook County
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First building designed
entirely in the Prairie House style by architect Frank Lloyd Wright |
33
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Hull House
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1965
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Chicago 41 ° 52 '17 " N , 87 ° 38" 49.7 " W.41.871399 -87.647133
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Cook County
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One of the first houses of the settlement movement in the USA
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34
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Illinois and Michigan Canal Locks and Towpath
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1964
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Joliet 41 ° 34 ′ 11 " N , 88 ° 4 ′ 11" W.41.569722 -88.069722
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Will County
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Eight hydraulic structures and canal sections of what is now the Illinois Waterway
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35
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Nicholas Jarrot Mansion
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2001
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Cahokia 38 ° 34 '12.4 " N , 90 ° 11' 13.6" W.38.57011 -90.18711
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St. Clair County
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Federal style building constructed 1807–1810
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36
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Kennicott Grove
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1976
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Glenview 42 ° 5 '12.7 " N , 87 ° 52' 12.1" W.42.086865 -87.870023
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Cook County
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Home of the naturalist Robert Kennicott
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37
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Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site
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1964
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Brookport 37 ° 4 '50.1 " N , 88 ° 29' 30.4" W.37.080575 -88.491783
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Massac County
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Archaeological dig site
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38
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Second Head of Building
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 28.1 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 38.6" W.41.8744774 -87.6273773
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Cook County
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A department store designed by the architect William Le Baron Jenney in
1889 |
39
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Frank R. Lillie House
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 22.4 " N , 87 ° 35 ′ 35.2" W.41.789545 -87.593114
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Cook County
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Former home of embryologist Frank Rattray Lillie
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40
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Lincoln Home National Historic Site
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1960
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Springfield 39 ° 47 '43.3 " N , 89 ° 38' 41" W.39.795352 -89.644724
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Sangamon County
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The only house that Abraham Lincoln , the 16th US President, had ever owned
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41
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Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool
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2006
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Chicago 41 ° 55 '31.1 " N , 87 ° 38' 2.8" W.41.9253 -87.6341
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Cook County
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Example of a Prairie House style park pond by landscape architect Alfred Caldwell
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42
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Lincoln's grave
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1960
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Springfield 39 ° 49 '24 " N , 89 ° 39' 21" W.39.823333 -89.655833
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Sangamon County
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The grave of 16th President Abraham Lincoln
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43
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Vachel Lindsay House
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1971
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Springfield 39 ° 47 '45.3 " N , 89 ° 38' 58" W.39.795926 -89.649441
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Sangamon County
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Former home of the writer Nicholas Vachel Lindsay
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44
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Owen Lovejoy House
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1997
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Princeton 41 ° 22 ′ 23 " N , 89 ° 27 ′ 3" W.41.373056 -89.450833
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Bureau County
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Home of Congressman and Abolitionist Owen Lovejoy
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45
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Marquette Building
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2010
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 48.7 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 45.7" W.41.880193 -87.629371
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Cook County
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Office building designed by Holabird & Roche in
1895 |
46
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Marshall Field and Company Building
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1978
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Chicago 41 ° 53 '0.7 " N , 87 ° 37' 40.3" W.41.883532 -87.62785
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Cook County
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Department store designed by architect Daniel Burnham ,
built in 1892 |
47
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Mazon Creek fossil beds
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1997
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Morris 41 ° 19 ′ 15.6 " N , 88 ° 20 ′ 45.6" W.41,321 -88,346
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Grundy County
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Pennsylvania period fossil site
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48
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Pierre Menard House
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1970
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Ellis Grove 37 ° 57 '52.9 " N , 89 ° 54' 35.6" W.37.9647 -89.9099
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Randolph County
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Former home of Pierre Menard (1766–1844), the first lieutenant governor of Illinois (1818–1822)
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49
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Robert A. Millikan House
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 34.5 " N , 87 ° 35 ′ 46.6" W.41.792918 -87.596283
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Cook County
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Home of the physicist Robert Andrews Millikan
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50
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Modoc Rock Shelter
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1961
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Modoc 38 ° 3 '46 " N , 90 ° 3' 49" W.38.062778 -90.063611
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Randolph County
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Archaeological site
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51
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Montgomery Ward Company Complex
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1978
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Chicago 41 ° 53 ′ 47.2 " N , 87 ° 38 ′ 36.2" W.41.89645 -87.643396
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Cook County
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Former headquarters of the Montgomery Ward mail order company
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52
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Morrow Plots
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1968
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Urbana 40 ° 6 ′ 9.2 ″ N , 88 ° 13 ′ 32.9 ″ W.40.102556 -88.225817
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Champaign County
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign experimental corn field
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53
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Nauvoo Historic District
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1961
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Nauvoo 40 ° 33 ′ 5 ″ N , 91 ° 22 ′ 18 ″ W.40.551389 -91.371667
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Hancock County
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Historic settlement of the Mormons
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54
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New Philadelphia Town Site
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2009
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Barry 39 ° 41 ′ 45 " N , 90 ° 57 ′ 35" W.39.695833 -90.959722
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Pike County
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1836 as the first settlement founded by an African American
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55
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Old Kaskaskia Village
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1964
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Ottawa
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LaSalle County
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Archaeological site; best-documented indigenous killer in the Illinois River valley - closed to the public
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56
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Old Main, Knox College
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1961
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Galesburg 40 ° 56 ′ 29.1 ″ N , 90 ° 22 ′ 14 ″ W.40.941423 -90.370568
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Knox County
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Old main building of Knox College ; best preserved site of the numerous Lincoln-Douglas debates
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57
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Old State Capitol
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1961
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Springfield 39 ° 47 '57 .3 " N , 89 ° 38' 53.3" W.39.799238 -89.648143
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Sangamon County
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Fifth State Capitol of Illinois
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58
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Union Stock Yards Gate
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1981
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Chicago 41 ° 48 ′ 59.9 " N , 87 ° 38 ′ 54.1" W.41.816627 -87.648364
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Cook County
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Entrance gate to the Chicago slaughterhouses; designed by the architect John Wellborn Root
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59
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Orchestra Hall
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1994
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Chicago 41 ° 52 '45.1 " N , 87 ° 37'27.9" W.41.8792 -87.624429
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Cook County
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Concert hall
built in 1904 and designed by Daniel Burnham |
60
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Principia College Historic District
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1993
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Elsah 38 ° 56 ′ 56 ″ N , 90 ° 20 ′ 51.1 ″ W.38.9489 -90.34753
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Jersey County
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Completed in 1940 by the architects Bernard Maybeck and Henry Gutterson in the Colonial Revival and Tudor Revival style , the ensemble of buildings of Principia College
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61
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Pullman Historic District
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1970
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Chicago 41 ° 41 ′ 50 " N , 87 ° 36 ′ 34" W.41.697222 -87.609444
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Cook County
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Former housing estate for the workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company , where the Hotel Florence is also located
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62
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Reliance Building
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 56.6 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 40.2" W.41.882382 -87.627844
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Cook County
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From 1890 to 1895 built and designed by architects John Wellborn Root , Charles B. Atwood and Daniel Hudson Burnham -designed office building
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63
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Riverside Historic District
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1970
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Riverside 41 ° 49 ′ 54.5 " N , 87 ° 48 ′ 48.6" W.41.8318 -87.8135
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Cook County
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Completed in 1869 as one of the first planned cities in the USA
|
64
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Frederick C. Robie House
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1963
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Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 25.2 " N , 87 ° 35 ′ 46.4" W.41.790332 -87.596214
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Cook County
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House designed in 1908 by Frank Lloyd Wright in the style of the Prairie Houses and completed in 1910
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65
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Rock Island Arsenal
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1988
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Rock Island 41 ° 31 ′ 1 ″ N , 90 ° 32 ′ 31 ″ W.41.516944 -90.541944
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Rock Island County
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Former site of Fort Armstrong ; now largest US government-owned arms factory; in the civil war prisoner of war camp
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66
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Rookery Building
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1975
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 45.4 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 56.2" W.41.879284 -87.632273
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Cook County
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1886 built by architects Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root entworfendes office building
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67
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George Herbert Jones Laboratory
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1967
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Chicago 41 ° 47 '18.3 " N , 87 ° 36' 3.7" W.41.788422 -87.6010245
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Cook County
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The laboratory in which the element plutonium was first isolated and its atomic mass determined
|
68
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Sears, Roebuck, and Company Complex
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1978
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 6.7 " N , 87 ° 42 ′ 38.1" W.41.868541 -87.710573
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Cook County
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Former headquarters of the Sears Corporation
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69
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Shedd Aquarium
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1987
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Chicago 41 ° 52 '1.9 " N , 87 ° 37" 9.2 " W.41.867182 -87.619236
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Cook County
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Formerly the world's largest aquarium
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Chicago Pile
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1965
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Chicago 41 ° 47 ′ 25.8 " N , 87 ° 36 ′ 3.8" W.41.790494 -87.601043
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Cook County
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World's first nuclear reactor
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71
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Printing House Row District
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1976
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Chicago 41 ° 52 ′ 35.6 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 41.2" W.41.876545 -87.62812
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Cook County
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Formerly the newspaper district in southern downtown Chicago; today mostly residential areas
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72
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Crown Hall
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|
2001
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Chicago 41 ° 50 ′ 1 " N , 87 ° 37 ′ 38" W.41.833611 -87.6272222
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Cook County
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1950–1956 built and designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe main building of the College of Architecture, Planning and Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology
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73
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Starved skirt
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1960
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Ottawa 41 ° 19 ′ 17 ″ N , 88 ° 59 ′ 25 ″ W.41.321389 -88.990278
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La Salle County
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Sandstone cliffs on the Illinois River
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74
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Lorado Taft Midway Studios
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1965
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Chicago 41 ° 47 '7.4 " N , 87 ° 36" 9.9 " W.41.785402 -87.60275
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Cook County
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In 1906 the studio of the sculptor Lorado Taft was built from a converted barn
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true
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FF Tomek House
|
|
1999
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Riverside 41 ° 49 ′ 55.8 " N , 87 ° 49 ′ 1.6" W.41.832153 -87.8171
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Cook County
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Built in 1904 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the style of Prairie Houses designed building
|
76
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Lyman Trumbull House
|
|
1975
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Alton 38 ° 53 '50.6 " N , 90 ° 10' 35.1" W.38.897389 -90.176415
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Madison County
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Home of former US Senator Lyman Trumbull
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77
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U 505
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1989
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Chicago 41 ° 51'52.4 " N , 87 ° 36'56.6" W.41.864543 -87.615713
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Cook County
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The only German submarine seized by the US Navy during World War II is now in the Museum of Science and Industry
|
78
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Unity Temple
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1970
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Oak Park 41 ° 53 ′ 19 ″ N , 87 ° 47 ′ 48.5 ″ W.41.888613 -87.796798
|
Cook County
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1905–1908 by Frank Lloyd Wright temple of the Unitarian Universalist Church
|
79
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University of Illinois Observatory
|
|
1989
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Urbana 40 ° 6 ′ 14.7 " N , 88 ° 13 ′ 32.6" W.40.104081 -88.225712
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Champaign County
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University of Illinois Observatory at Urbana-Champaign
|
80
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The Wayside
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1966
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Winnetka 42 ° 6 ′ 51.2 ″ N , 87 ° 43 ′ 56.9 ″ W.42.114222 -87.732475
|
Cook County
|
Former home of journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd
|
81
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett House
|
|
1974
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Chicago 41 ° 49'40.1 " N , 87 ° 37'3" W.41.8277944 -87.6175043
|
Cook County
|
Former home of civil rights activist Ida B. Wells
|
82
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Frances Willard House
|
|
1965
|
Evanston 42 ° 2 '53.8 " N , 87 ° 40' 42.5" W.42.048287 -87.678481
|
Cook County
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Former home of Frances Willard , a co-founder of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
|
83
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Daniel Hale Williams House
|
|
1975
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Chicago 41 ° 49 ′ 6.3 " N , 87 ° 36 ′ 55" W.41.818425 -87.615284
|
Cook County
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The former home of Daniel Hale Williams , the first African American cardiologist and heart surgeon
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84
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Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
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1976
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Oak Park 41 ° 53 '36.2 " N , 87 ° 48' 0.7" W.41.893387 -87.800182
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Cook County
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Former home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright
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