225 South Canal Street; Architect: Graham, Anderson, Probst and White; Date built: 1925; On back: "The Union Station, located on Canal Street between Adams and Jackson in downtown Chicago, is used by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Chicago and...
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad; Chicago & Western Indiana Railroad; Erie Railroad; Chicago Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad; Grand Trunk Railroad; Wabash Railroad; Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad; Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
On back: "This is the $20,000,000.00 Terminal of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. It is situated on Madison Street on the West Side of the river. At present it is Chicago's largest and finest railroad depot."
Honest to goodness, this is really the largest commercial building in America. Merchandise Mart has four million square feet of floor space. Tower section alone is as large as most office buildings. If built up like most of the recent setback...
Sulfuric acid unit at the East Chicago, Indiana Works of the DuPont Company's Industrial and Biochemicals Department is the world's largest, capable of turning out more than a trainload of acid a week. This unit was brought into commercial...
Text from back of image: 'The 'Untin' Bowler, giant Sikorsky biplane, which will attempt to fly from Chicago to Berlin via Iceland and Greenland, hopped off from North Beach, Queens, NY on June 29th for Chicago. Robert Gast and Parker Cramer were...
