why was the auditorium building of chicago and the musuem of science and industry landmarks of chicago?
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Well at for the Auditorium Building, the home of the Auditorium Theatre was the first theatre in the US to have Electric Lighting on the stage.
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For over a half century, the Hollywood Palladium has offered world-class entertainment - from legends of the Big Band era, to the best in contemporary rock concerts. Since opening it's doors on October 29, 1940, the nightclub/ballroom has consistantly presented the highest caliber of music events possible, establishing itself as Hollywood's flagship for fun and excitement.\n\nThe Palladium began the vision of motion pictures producer/promoter Maurice M. Cohen – his personal dream to create the world’s largest dining and dancing palace. Opened as a ballroom in 1940, the 11,000 square foot oval dance floor was the place to be, When the Palladium had its gala premiere, the entertainment industry was in the midst of its heyday. Tommy Dorsey and his band, featuring soon-to-be-famous Frank Sinatra, opened to rave reviews. Over 6,500 people attended each show, filling the dance floor, dining area, and mezzanine.\n\nIn those days the Palladium was situated between the NBC and CBS radio studios and dominated the night scene which included such celebrity haunts as the Brown Derby, Earl Carroll’s and the Mocambo. Inside, familiar faces like Rita Hayworth, Tyrone Power, Lana Turner and Betty Grable mingled with non-celebrity clientele who enjoyed the ballroom’s entertainment and big band dancing at moderate prices.\n\nAs America entered World War II, the Palladium flourished and continued to provide top-flight bands. For 50 cents, GI’s spilling over from the nearby Hollywood Canteen could dance to live music by Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Les Brown, Harry James and Stan Kenton, whose radio broadcast brought the excitement of the Palladium into millions of homes nightly. Even after the war, when big bands began to lose their popularity, the Palladium still drew in a record 6,750 eager dancers to the 1947 opening night performance of Tex Beneke and the Glenn Miller Orchestra – an event enthusiastically covered by Life Magazine.\n\nThe television came to the Palladium in the early fifties with a weekly one and one-half hour telecast over KNXT. In 1961, when two television producers became the new owners, they booked Lawrence Welk who drew an estimated 14,000 people for his first two nights. Over the next decade, the Hollywood Palladium became Welk’s “home” for his popular weekly television broadcast.\n\nAs contemporary tastes have changed, so has the Hollywood Palladium’s breadth of entertainment. The Rolling Stones, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Rod Stewart, The Police, MTV’s Lollapalooza Tour, Alice in Chains, Bon Jovi and the Red Hot Chili Peppers have all performed in the landmark facility. The ballroom has even hosted such dignitaries as England’s Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden, Robert Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Adalai Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon.\n\nThe Hollywood Palladium has been the site of many nationally televised events including the Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Entertainment Hall of Fame Awards, Comedy Awards, NAACP Image Awards, Country Music Awards, and others. Location shooting has also been an important part of the facility’s daily operation; and the Palladium has provided a backdrop for scenes including “The Bodyguard,” “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” “Mr. Saturday Night,” “1941,” “The Sinatra Story” (mini-series) and the “Blues Brothers”. \n\nCurrently owned and operated by Palladium Investment, Inc., with Steve Silberman as CEO and Alan Shuman as President, the 40,700 sq. foot facility boasts a 11,200 sq. foot, solid white ash dance floor; a 15,000 sq. foot acoustical plaster ceiling; computerized bar stations; and state-of-the-art lighting and sound system. The dining facilities can readily accommodate up to 2,500 guests in a banquet-style setting, with concert events drawing as many as 3,500 spectators.\n\nThe owners have pledged to retain the integrity and quality of
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Smithsonian (it is bigger than just space) in Washington D.C. followed by the Field Museum or Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
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I've been to the Field Museum in Chicago which was really nice because it's right next to the Shedd Aquarium and the Adler Planetarium so you get to go to all three in one trip with very little walking and no trips back to the car. It was kinda small relatively speaking as far as museums go, but very interesting.
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Cal Tech has a really good video series that should be in most larger libraries.  It's not all directly on industrial engineering but much of it does apply.  I always enjoy watching it when it comes on PBS.\n\nPart of the series is call The Mechanical Universe, I think.
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Field's business enjoyed tremendous success and quickly established its reputation as Chicago's most fashionable and respectable department store. As business and profits increased, the store building itself was progressively enlarged, coming eventually to occupy the entire square block bounded by State, Washington, Randolph, and Wabash. The southeast quadrant was built in 1893 in anticipation of the Columbian Exposition, followed by the northwest and northeast quadrants.
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The Sears tower in Chicago.
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I'll be interested to see the answers.  One of the largest buildings is the VAB at Kennedy Space Center.... not the tallest, but large.  VAB is the vertical assembly building where rockets are assembled.  It is so large that clouds form inside.  NASA manages it.
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It was a World's Fair, and it was in Chicago.  There've been a number of books about it - "Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson is a good one to start with.
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Ask to Chicago people!
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Did you want modern buildings? \nHere are a few:\nThe Chrysler Building (New York) - William Van Alen\nEmpire State Building - Shreve, Lamb and Harmon\nThe Sears Tower - Bruce Graham (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill)\nThe World Trade Center - Minoru Yamasaki\nSydney Opera House - Jorn Utzon\nThe Seagram Building - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson \nGrand Central - Reed and Stern and Warren and Wetmore
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Most common explanation is that it was entertainment/jazz speak for "the big city". but there are lots of interpretations. See link
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You are looking for Fermi Lab in Batavia, IL.\n\nIt is a large circular structure a little over a mile in diameter that is underground, but a road runs on the top of it.  See the link below (note that the address does not line up with the accelerator itself).\n\nFor more information on this facility, see the second link
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The surface on which the structure is being built.
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Try to ask mor clearlly at http://skyscrapercity.com/archive/index.php/t-160977-p-4.html
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The story you will commonly find is that it dates to shortly before the great World’s Columbian Exhibition of 1893. Chicago was putting forward its claim with great verve and bombast. This really got up the nose of people in New York, which was competing with Chicago to host the exhibition. Animosity became so bad that Charles A Dana, editor of the New York Sun, wrote an editorial telling New Yorkers to pay no attention to the “nonsensical claims of that windy city. Its people could not hold a world’s fair even if they won it”. The history books tell us that Chicago did win it and did hold it (and even made a profit from it). Books also tell us that the nickname of Windy City dates from that editorial.
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I'd have to say A&M, although I'm biased because I went there. I wasn't an architecture major, but I'm interested in it and I enjoyed taking an architecture class and independent study project there. I had a friend who did arcitecture there who is in grad school at Yale now, so they seem to prepare people well. I don't know much about the other school, although Chicago does have some historic influence in architecture.