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Chicago Post Office
The Old Chicago Main Post Office is a nine-story-tall building in Chicago Loop, downtown Chicago. The original building was designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White and built in 1921, but the structure was expanded greatly in 1932 in order to serve Chicago's great volume of postal business, swollen by the mail-order businesses of Montgomery Ward (the largest retailer in the United States) and of Sears (its competitor). The Old Post Office is home to many corporate offices including Walgreens, Ferrara Candy Company, PepsiCo, Cisco Systems, Uber, CBOE, Home Chef, and more. History The original 1922 structure was a brick-sided mail terminal building, sited just east of the main building that spans the Interstate 290 (Illinois), Eisenhower Expressway as it turns into Congress Parkway, Ida B. Wells Drive. Major expansion in 1932 added a total of nine floors for more than , or 2.5 million square feet (230,000 m²), of floorspace. Its footprint, as initially designed, would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Post Office Chicago 2022
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