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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. 860–880 Lake Shore Drive Apartments - Wikipedia

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   80001344 [1] Significant dates. Added to NRHP. August 28, 1980. Designated CL. June 10, 1996. 860–880 Lake Shore Drive is a twin pair of glass-and-steel apartment towers on N. Lake Shore Drive along Lake Michigan in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Construction began in 1949 and the project was completed in 1951.

4. 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 ...

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. 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.

7. River North Gallery District, Near North Side, Chicago

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   Coordinates: 41°53′45″N 87°38′0″W. The River North Gallery District or simply River North, in Chicago, is in the Near North Side, Chicago. It once hosted the largest concentration of art galleries in the United States outside of Manhattan. [1] River North has experienced vast changes in the years 1990 - 2012, including the development ...