Chicago Skyscrapers (IL) (Postcard History Series) Emotional Mental Health bighearted

bighearted

” —Michiko Kakutani

Because love is girly

idealistic teenager

author of On Animals

Chicago Skyscrapers (IL) (Postcard History Series) Emotional Mental Health bigheartedThe skyscraper has changed the face of urban architecture and it all started in Chicago. Born out of the ashes of Chicago's Great Fire of 1871, the first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building located at the northeast corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets, was completed in 1885. Designed by William Le Baron Jenney, the nine story building had a metal load carrying structural frame, the development of which led to steel frame skeletal construction and