Home Insurance Building Site
Home Insurance Building Site is a historic site in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 181 m. Mount Trashmore stands 204 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Weather Bell, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Historic Route 66 runs past it. 16 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
19th century commercial building in Chicago, Illinois
Dates from 1885.
Wikidata Q944544, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Inscription
- This section of the Field Building is erected on the site of the Home Insurance Building, which structure, designed and built in eighteen hundred and eighty four by the late William Le Baron Jenney, was the first high building to utilize as the basic prin
How to reach it
- On the Historic Route 66, National
- 25.8 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Des Plaines River · 13 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Weather Bell: 0.1 mi
- SkyDeck Chicago Willis Tower: 0.2 mi
- The Ledge: 0.2 mi
- Begin Route 66: 0.4 mi
- Paris Metro Entryway (Metra): 0.5 mi
- Money Museum: 0.1 mi
- Chicago Board of Trade Building Museum: 0.1 mi
- Color Factory: 0.2 mi
- Museum of Illusions: 0.3 mi
- Pritzker Military Museum & Library: 0.4 mi
- Northern Trust open space: 0.1 mi
- The Willis Terrace: 0.2 mi
- Pritzker Park: 0.3 mi
- North Garden: 0.4 mi
- South Garden: 0.4 mi
- Agriculture: 0.1 mi
- Industry: 0.1 mi
- Flamingo: 0.1 mi
- The Town-Ho's Story: 0.1 mi
- Four Seasons: 0.1 mi
- Eternal Flame: 0.3 mi
- Mayor Harold Washington: 0.3 mi
- Oscar O. D'Angelo Park: 0.4 mi
- Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam: 0.5 mi
- Old Post Office Site: 0.5 mi
- Sir Georg Solti Garden: 0.5 mi
- Congress Triangle Garden: 0.5 mi
- Pritzker Garden: 0.5 mi
- Light Plate: 0.5 mi
- Lurie Garden: 0.5 mi
- Picnic Grove C: 0.8 mi
- Picnic Grove B: 0.8 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 2: 2.5 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 3: 2.5 mi
- Lincoln Park - Grove 4: 2.7 mi
- Ping Tom Natural Area: 1.4 mi
- McCormick Bird Sanctuary: 2.3 mi
- Burnham Wildlife Corridor: 2.6 mi
- South Pond Natural Area: 2.6 mi
- Burnham Wildlife Corridor: 2.9 mi
- Ohio Street Beach: 1.4 mi
- Oak Street Beach: 1.7 mi
- 12th Street Beach: 1.7 mi
- Margaret Burroughs Beach: 3.1 mi
- Humboldt Beach: 4.1 mi
- Soldier Field Sledding Hill: 1.8 mi
- Mount Bridgeport: 2.7 mi
- Horner Park Hill: 6.4 mi
- Players Hill: 7.0 mi
- Obama Center Sled Hill: 7.0 mi
- Rosemont Waterfall: 14.0 mi
- Sawmill Creek Waterfall: 21.0 mi
- Canyon Creek Cascade: 23.1 mi
- Canyon Creek Falls: 23.2 mi
- Rain Garden Springs: 8.0 mi
- Swallow Cliffs: 18.3 mi
- Chicago Southland Lincoln Oasis: 20.9 mi
- Tedens: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Home Insurance Building Site. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | NNW 339° | 204 m | 10.6 mi |
| Players Hill | W 268° | 187 m | 7.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 29 | 38 | 48 | 58 | 68 | 74 | 74 | 67 | 54 | 43 | 31 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/2465607685
Day trips start here
- Chicago · 0 mi
- Chicago/Loop · 0 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 1 mi
- Chicago/Near South · 1 mi
- Chicago/Near West Side · 2 mi
- Chicagoland · 2 mi
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