 view gallery S0.5 km
|   Christopher Columbus (aka The Drake Fountain) - Chicago, IL
in Statues of Historic Figures The plaque at the top reads: "Ice Water Fountain, the gift of John B. Drake, to the City of Chicago 1892." This is joined by a statue of Columbus. posted by:  adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 08/15/2019 last visited: never |
 view galleryS0.5 km |  The Drake Fountain - Chicago, IL
in Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures The plaque at the top reads: "Ice Water Fountain, the gift of John B. Drake, to the City of Chicago 1892." This is joined by a statue of Columbus. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 08/29/2019 last visited: never |
 view gallery SW2.4 km
|  Eight student nurses murdered - Chicago, IL
in Infamous Crime Scenes On July 14, 1966, Richard Speck stalked and then murdered his eight victims in this southside Chicago townhouse. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 01/14/2014 last visited: never |
 view gallery SE3.5 km
|  Illinois-Indiana State Line Boundary Marker
in U.S. Historic Survey Stones and Monuments The northern boundary marker on the Illinois-Indiana State Line. posted by:  Shorelander location: Illinois date approved: 04/26/2010 last visited: 10/21/2018 |
 view gallery N3.7 km
|  South Shore Beach Apartments - Chicago, IL
in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Now known as the Windsor Beach Apartments, this Italianate designed co-op apartment building is laid out in the shape of a Maltese Cross which allows expansive lake views from every apartment. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 06/29/2013 last visited: never |
 view galleryN4 km | South Shore Country Club - Chicago, IL in U.S. National Register of Historic Places The South Shore Country Club was founded in 1905 as a suburban counterpart to the urban clubs of Chicago, such as the Athletic Club. The original building was designed by architects Marshall and Fox in a Mediterranean Revival style. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 06/29/2013 last visited: never |
 view galleryN4.5 km |  Kenna Apartments Reliefs - Chicago, IL
in Relief Art Sculptures Two small concrete panels, designed by Alphonso Iannelli, on either side of the front door of the apartment building designed by modernist architect Barry Byrne. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 09/03/2019 last visited: never |
 view galleryS5.5 km |  Republic Steel Memorial Day Massacre sculpture & marker - Chicago, IL
in Illinois Historical Markers The sculpture, with its ten steel pipes, represent the smoke stacks of steel mills within the area (now closed) and the people of the area. They can also be representative of the slain ten demonstrators. Accompanying plaques explain the history. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 09/07/2019 last visited: never |
 view gallery NW5.6 km
|  Eternal Light Monument - Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
in The Holocaust A red granite tower, dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 08/30/2013 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE5.6 km |  Horseshoe Hammond Casino - Hammond IN
in Casinos Horseshoe Hammond Casino is located at 777 Casino Center Drive, Hammond IN 46320. It is just 20 minutes from downtown Chicago in the heart of Hammond. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Indiana date approved: 12/08/2023 last visited: 12/08/2023 |
 view galleryNW5.8 km | The Confederate Mound Monument - Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL in Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures A bronze figure of a Confederate infantry soldier, arms folded across his chest, hat in hand, and kit hanging at his side, stands atop a square granite column. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/05/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW5.8 km |  The Confederate Mound Monument - Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
in Out of Place Graves A bronze figure of a Confederate infantry soldier, arms folded across his chest, hat in hand, and kit hanging at his side, stands atop a square granite column, keeping watch over the mass grave of 6000 southerners resting in the north. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/09/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW5.8 km |  The Confederate Mound Monument - Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
in American Civil War Monuments and Memorials A bronze figure of a Confederate infantry soldier, arms folded across his chest, hat in hand, and kit hanging at his side, stands atop a square granite column. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/09/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW5.8 km |  Confederate Mound - Chicago, IL
in Veteran Cemeteries The plot contains burials of Confederate dead originally interred in the city cemetery, and in grounds near the hospital at Camp Douglas, a prisoner-of-war camp located in Chicago.
posted by: Go Boilers! location: Illinois date approved: 01/04/2009 last visited: 06/20/2010 |
 view galleryNW5.8 km |  Enrico Fermi - Chicago, IL
in Grave of a Famous Person Grave of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor. posted by: hykesj location: Illinois date approved: 01/28/2023 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW5.8 km |  The Republic - Chicago, IL
in Figurative Public Sculpture Standing female figure holding a staff in her proper left hand and a ball with a bird on it in her proper right hand. She is classically draped and wears a laurel wreath on her head. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/20/2010 last visited: 09/03/2017 |
 view galleryNW5.8 km | The Republic - Chicago, IL in Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures Standing female figure holding a staff in her proper left hand and a ball with a bird on it in her proper right hand. She is classically draped and wears a laurel wreath on her head. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/21/2010 last visited: 09/03/2017 |
 view galleryNW5.8 km |  Statue of the Republic - Chicago, IL
in Exact Replicas The Republic is a one-third reproduction of the colossal 65-foot-high sculpture which originally dominated the Court of Honor at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. posted by: Go Boilers! location: Illinois date approved: 01/03/2009 last visited: 07/02/2010 |
 view galleryNW6 km |  Chicago Fire Department Cold Storage Warehouse Fire Memorial - Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
in Firefighter Memorials Vertical monument and flag for the 17 fallen firefighters and workers who battled the blaze at the Cold Storage Building at the World's Fair in Chicago on July 10, 1893. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/11/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW6.1 km | Olympian Jesse Owens - Chicago, IL in Grave of a Famous Person Jesse Owens won 4 gold medals at the 1936 Berlin games. posted by: Go Boilers! location: Illinois date approved: 01/04/2009 last visited: 06/20/2010 |
 view galleryNW6.1 km |  Relic from Chicago Fire of 1871 - Chicago, IL
in Famous Fires A pile of charred building remnants from the great Chicago Fire of 1871, located near the entrance of Oak Woods Cemetery. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/09/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW6.1 km |  Roland Burris Tombstone - Chicago, IL
in News Article Locations Roland Burris is a politician from Illinois. A stickler for preparation, he has built a mausoleum for himself in Oak Woods Cemetery on the South Side, even though he is still alive. posted by: Go Boilers! location: Illinois date approved: 01/10/2009 last visited: 06/20/2010 |
 view galleryNW6.1 km |  Goldwin G. Little - Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL
in Woodmen of the World Grave Markers/Monuments Someone on our cemetery tour said "Look, a Woodman!" A flat reddish stone with the circular seal inscribed "Woodmen of the World Memorial - Dum Tacet Clamat" came into view. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/09/2010 last visited: 03/22/2022 |
 view galleryNW6.3 km | Soldiers' Monument - Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL in American Civil War Monuments and Memorials Statue of a single soldier in a frontal pose with an object held in proper right hand close to the body. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/09/2010 last visited: never |
 view galleryNW6.3 km | Soldiers' Monument - Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, IL in Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures Statue of a single soldier in a frontal pose with an object held in proper right hand close to the body. posted by: adgorn location: Illinois date approved: 07/08/2010 last visited: never |
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