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photo: Carol M. Highsmith
Union Station in Chicago was built by Daniel Burnham’s successor firm Graham, Anderson, Probst & White after Burnham’s death. The station was a major element in the West Loop development as laid out in the 1909 Plan of Chicago. The station's ornate Beaux-Arts main waiting room, with its vaulted skylight, statuary, and connecting lobbies, staircases, and balconies, is one of Chicago’s great public spaces.
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I love this space. If only all waiting rooms were this peaceful. And it's like you go back in time. They could have a hip hop concert in there and it would still feel like the 1920's.
Bonus points for being the location of the Untouchables shoot-out sequence.
Posted by Craig Johnson | March 15, 2007 6:28 PM
Posted on March 15, 2007 18:28