THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE

INDUSTRY and AGRICULTURE flanked the front entrance of the Chicago Board of Trade. The structure was designed by William Boyington in 1885 and lasted until demolished to allow the construction of the new Board of Trade Building in 1928. Below is INDUSTRY.

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Her serenity gives no clue of the concern that the BOT felt for Chicago's growing and increasingly vocal Chicago Labor Movement. Take a look at this link: http://www.patsabin.com/illinois/trade.htm It is a vintage postcard showing the statues standing above the door. Their sculptor is unknown.

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William Lebaron Jenney?

These decorative sculptures are located on the East Facade at 312 South Federal, directly behind the existing Union League Club, designed by Mundie & Jensen in 1928. If this small building at 312 is a remnant of the original Union League, the Architect would have been William LeBaron Jenney. (Louis Sullivan, Daniel Burnham, John Root, and William Holabird all worked in Jenney's office.) The building would be dated 1880. Does anyone know more?

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The Gothic Revival Style with its tracery and arches would be date appropriate to 1880. The Monadnock Building, directly to the East was constructed in 1891, and combined with the narrowness of (pre-automobile) Federal Street, makes this little corner of the City decidedly 19th Century. A perfect place for a Chicago mystery. For more detailed information about Architect/Engineer William LeBaron Jenney see http://www.ci.chi.il.us/Landmarks/Architects/Jenney.html

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