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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Arthur H. Compton House
Home of Nobel-prize-winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Crow Island School
An elementary school designed by Perkins + Will and Eliel & Eero Saarinen. Model for the now-widespread Winnetka Plan school design.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: James Charnley House
Louis Sullivan AND Frank Lloyd Wright got in on this one's design.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Adler Planetarium
First and oldest planetarium in the western hemisphere.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Frederick C. Robie House
A Prairie style home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1908.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Lincoln Park Lily Pool
An example of Prairie School landscape architecture designed by Alfred Caldwell.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Reliance Building
A building designed by Burnham & Root.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Bishop Hill Colony
Historic district of Swedish dissident commune founded in 1846.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Oscar Stanton De Priest House
Home of the first post-Reconstruction African-American US congressman.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: David Davis House
Home of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Abraham Lincoln campaign manager David Davis.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Lorado Taft Midway Studios
Studios of sculptor Lorado Taft, designed by Pond & Pond.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Fort De Chartres
French fort built in 1720. Its powder magazine is believed to be oldest standing building in Illinois.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Il: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
Former home and studio of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Cahokia Mounds
Largest archaeological site related to Mississippian culture.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Old Kaskaskia Village
The best-documented Native American village in the Illinois River Valley.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Riverside Historic District
Planned community designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Nauvoo Historic District
A historic district based around a 19th century Mormon settlement; beginning of the Mormon Trail.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Ulysses S. Grant Home
A house given to General of the Army Ulysses S. Grant following the Civil War. Grant was elected President of the United States while residing here.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Church of the Holy Family
A church dating from 1799.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Frances Willard House
Former home of temperance reformer Frances Willard, and longtime headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Frank R. Lillie House
Former home of embryologist Frank Rattray Lillie.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Owen Lovejoy House
Home of prominent abolitionist Owen Lovejoy.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Charles G. Dawes House
Home of Charles Gates Dawes, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Vice President to Calvin Coolidge.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: The Wayside
Home of Henry Demarest Lloyd.