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Hace 22 horas · Archived from the original on September 23, 2015. [1] The Willis Tower, originally and still commonly referred to as the Sears Tower, is a 110- story, 1,451-foot (442.3 m) skyscraper in the Loop community area of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed by architect Bruce Graham and engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ...
Hace 22 horas · The Trump International Hotel and Tower is a skyscraper condo-hotel in downtown Chicago, Illinois.The building, named for Donald Trump, was designed by architect Adrian Smith of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. Bovis Lend Lease built the 100-story structure, which reaches a height of 1,388 feet (423.2 m) including its spire, its roof topping out at 1,171 feet (357 m).
Hace 22 horas · Chicago: Illinois Institute of Technology: Variety WIJR: 880 AM: Highland: Birach Broadcasting Corporation: Regional Mexican WIKK: 103.5 FM: Newton: V.L.N. Broadcasting, Inc. Classic rock WILL: 580 AM: Urbana: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois: News/Talk; Public radio WILL-FM: 90.9 FM: Urbana: The Board of Trustees of the ...
Hace 22 horas · Jane Addams as a young woman, undated studio portrait by Cox, Chicago Birthplace of Jane Addams in Cedarville, Illinois. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), in the public domain. Born in Cedarville, Illinois , [18] Jane Addams was the youngest of eight children born into a prosperous northern Illinois family of English-American descent which traced back to colonial Pennsylvania. [19]
Hace 22 horas · e. William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was ...
Hace 22 horas · t. e. Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...
Hace 22 horas · The word "Brazil" likely comes from the Portuguese word for brazilwood, a tree that once grew plentifully along the Brazilian coast. In Portuguese, brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from brasa ("ember") and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium). It has alternatively been suggested that this is a folk etymology for a ...
