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Thursday, September 6, 2007

John Hancock Center

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Friday, June 1, 2007

Commemorative monuments and memorials

Posted on 6:06 AM by babli panday
# Abraham Lincoln Monument - Augustus Saint-Gaudens..
# Abraham Lincoln Statue - Augustus Saint-Gaudens..
# Alexander Hamilton Memorial - Eliel Saarinen..
# Benito Juarez sculpture - Julian Martinez..
# Benjamin Franklin Monument - Richard Henry Park
# Carl von Linne Monument - Carl Johan Dyfverman..
# Christopher Columbus Monument - Carl Brioschi..
# Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain - Edward Bennett..
# Eugene Field Memorial - Edward Francis McCartan..
# Sir George Solti - Elisabeth Frink ..
# Irv Kupcinet Memorial - Preston Jackson ..
# Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable Monument..
# General John Logan Memorial - August Saint-Gaudens..
# John Peter Altgeld Momument - Gutzon Borglum..
# Johann Wolfgang von Gothe Monument - Herman Hahn..
# Karel Havlicek Memorial - Joseph Strachovsky ...
# LaSalle Monument - Count Jacques de La Laing
# Nathan Hale Monument - Bela Lyon Pratt ..
# Nicolaus Copernicus Monument - Bertel Thorvaldsen..
# Shakespeare Monument - William Ordway Partridge..
# Thaddeus Kosciuzsko Memorial - Kasimir Chodsinski..
# Theodore Thomas Memorial - Albin Polasek..
# Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Memorial - Albin Polasek..
# Ulysses S. Grant Memorial - Louis Rebisso..

Events
# Haymarket Memorial - Mary Brogger ..
# Heald Square Monument - Lorado Taft ..
# Victory Monument - Leonard Crunelle..
# Site of Fort Dearborn
# Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam
# Site of origin of the Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871
# Site of Heymarket Tragedy of May 4, 1886
# Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction of December 2, 1942
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Friday, February 10, 2006

Symbolism [Owl]

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Owl: symbol of knowledge..
Minerva..
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Wednesday, February 1, 2006

Guilloche

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Guilloche..
Decoration of interlaced bands, forming a pattern of circles or loops..
A type of running ornament..
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Acroterian

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Acroterian..
An ornament placed at the corner or peak of a roof or pediment..

Images above are from the Harold Washington Library.. click here...
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Caryatids

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Caryatid
A sculptured female figure serving as an ornamental support in place of a column or pilaster..

Images from the "Museum of Science and Industry"..
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Glossary of Terms

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# Acroterain..
# Bucrania..
# Caryatids..

Symbolism
# Bald Eagle - Symbol of America..
# Ceres - Goddess of grain and patron saint of corn traders..
# Owl - Symbol of wisdom..
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