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2. North Shore (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   Communities and their years of settlement and incorporation Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly ...

3. Near North Side, Chicago - Wikipedia

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   Near North Side, Chicago. /  41.90000°N 87.63444°W  / 41.90000; -87.63444. The Near North Side is the eighth of Chicago's 77 community areas. It is the northernmost of the three areas that constitute central Chicago, the others being the Loop and the Near South Side. The community area is located north and east of the Chicago River.

4. Michigan Avenue (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   Michigan Avenue is a north-south street in Chicago that runs at 100 east on the Chicago grid. The northern end of the street is at Lake Shore Drive on the shore of Lake Michigan in the Gold Coast Historic District. The street's southern terminus is at Sibley Boulevard in the southern suburb of Dolton, but like many other Chicago streets, it ...

5. Palmer Mansion - Wikipedia

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   The Palmer Mansion was a large private home constructed 1882–1885 at 1350 N. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois. Once the largest private residence in the city, it was located in the Near North Side neighborhood, facing Lake Michigan. [6] It was designed by architects Henry Ives Cobb and Charles Sumner Frost of the firm Cobb and Frost and ...

6. 680 N Lake Shore Drive - Wikipedia

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   680 N Lake Shore Drive ( a.k.a. Lake Shore Place) is a 29-story building located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Originally named the American Furniture Mart, was completed in 1926. The two halves were designed separately: the eastern half by Raeder, George C. Nimmons, and Max Dunning; and the western half by Nimmons and ...

7. Gold Coast Historic District (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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   January 30, 1978 [1] The Gold Coast Historic District is a historic district in Chicago, Illinois. Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street . The Gold Coast neighborhood grew in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire. In 1882, millionaire Potter Palmer ...