In 1885, the first steel-framed high-rise building, the Home Insurance Building, rose in the city as Chicago ushered in the skyscraper era, which would then be followed by many other cities around the world.

The first steel frame skyscraper was the Home Insurance Building ( originally 10 storeys with a height of ) in Chicago, Illinois in 1885.

* The first skyscraper ( the Home Insurance Building ) is built in Chicago, Illinois, USA ( 10 floors ).

Home Insurance Building

* Home Insurance Building, the first skyscraper in history, becomes the tallest man-made structure ever built after it officially opened in 1885.

* Veterans Benefits Administration-( VBA ) responsible for initial veteran registration, eligibility determination, and five key lines of business ( benefits and entitlements ): Home Loan Guaranty, Insurance, Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment, Education ( GI Bill ), and Compensation & Pension

Benefits and topics include ; VA Health Care Benefits, Veterans with Service-Connected Disabilities, VA Pensions, Education and Training, Home Loan Guaranty, VA Life Insurance, Burial and Memorial Benefits, Reserve and National Guard, Special Groups of Veterans, Transition Assistance, Dependents and Survivors Health Care, Dependents and Survivors Benefits, Appeals of VA Claims Decisions, Military Medals and Records, and Other Federal Benefits.

After building an estimated 2, 000 homes, Mort Engle sold his remaining to the U. S. Home Corporation and to the Federal Life Insurance Company and moved to Arizona.

* Other Sikeston businesses include AgMart Sales, Clayton Fabrication and Metal Works, Collins Music, Construction Trailer Specialists, Days Inn, DeWitt Company, Duckett Truck Center, Ferguson Medical Group, First Midwest Bank, Focus Bank, Garage Door Company of Sikeston, J. C. Penney, J-J-N Enterprises, Lowe's, Meyers Supply Company, Slusher Farm and Home Center, Mitchell Insurance, NewWave Communications, Pyramid Roofing Company, Retco Trailer Manufacturing, Steward Steel, The UPS Store, and Walgreens with multiple locations for Dollar General, Raymond James Financial, State Farm Insurance, and U. S. Bancorp.

Nabisco opened corporate offices as the National Biscuit Company in the world's first skyscraper, the Home Insurance Building in the Chicago Loop in 1898.

The Home Insurance Building, which some regarded as the first skyscraper in the world, was built in Chicago in 1885 and was demolished in 1931.

* TD Insurance Home and Auto

William LeBaron Jenney was the architect of the first skyscraper in the world ; The Home Insurance Building in Chicago is the first skyscraper because of the use of structural steel in the building.

The Ministry of Health Act 1919 abolished the Local Government Board, and all of its powers and duties were transferred to the new ministry, which also combined the duties of the Insurance Commissioners, the Welsh Insurance Commissioners, the medical duties of the Board of Education, the duties of the Privy Council under the Midwives Acts and the powers of the Home Secretary in relation to the Children Act 1908.

The Home Insurance Building in Chicago, built in 1885

Chicago became the center of the skyscaper craze, starting with the ten-story Home Insurance Building in 1884 – 1885 by William Le Baron Jenney.

FSA was set up when the department was reorganized in 1994, incorporating programs from several agencies, including the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation ( now a separate Risk Management Agency ), and the Farmers Home Administration.

The Home Insurance Building was built in 1884 in Chicago, Illinois, USA and destroyed in 1931 to make way for the Field Building ( now the LaSalle National Bank Building ).

Although the Home Insurance Building made full use of steel framing technology, in this theory it was not a pure steel-framed structure since it rested partly on granite piers at the base and on a rear brick wall.

The Home Insurance Building is an example of the Chicago School in architecture.

The Field Building ( later known as the La Salle Bank Building and now owned by Bank of America ), built in 1931, now stands where the Home Insurance Building once stood.

: 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 principle of its design the method known as skeleton construction and, being a primal influence in the acceptance of this principle was the true father of the skyscraper, 1932.

Home to many of the humanities, the Cornett Building boasts a long history of befuddling students who find themselves lost within its long corridors.

The Citizens Home and Savings Company was incorporated in 1889 with a million dollars in capital, located in the Liggett Building in Marysville.

2 ) Home Field Sports Grill ( est 1990 )-also on Decatur Hwy-is attempting to repair and resume their business, however City Building Inspectors are requiring numerous and costly code upgrades which threaten the owners ' ability to reopen.

The Garage Building was also prominent in the filming of " Far From Home ".

Among the historic buildings lost were the American House and the Moyer-Kantner Funeral Home, both dating from 1870, and the Herstine Building.

In 1988, the last laird, John David Home Robertson, a socialist member of Parliament, placed the house and grounds into the Paxton House Historic Building Preservation Trust.

The Regimental Museum and Home Headquarters of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders are located in the King's Old Building.

In Lazi, a garrison was established in the old Home Economics Building of the Central School.

* Gilmer's Home Hardware Building Centre

* Some of the local businesses in town include, Another Chance Thrift Store, the Nunda Lumber and Hardware, Hope Valley Camp, Once Again Nut Butter, Nunda Mustard, Dalton Builders Incorporated, Didas Construction, Souther Tier Express Video Store, Nunda Historical Society, Poor American Cafe, Kathy's Country Florist, Mann Funeral Home, Hark Homes, Cassidy and Underwood Building, Douglas Ford, Bugman and Sons Milking Company, Nunda NAPA auto parts, Bill's Restaurant, Lawsons Sand and Gravel, Husky's Laundromat and Car Wash, and The Pizza Corner.

The Fred and Gladys Grady House and the Oliver and Gertrude Lundquist House, both in Bismarck, North Dakota, are listed on the U. S. National Register of Historic Places as examples of the work of the Nonpartisan League's Home Building Association.

* Cabin at Singing River: Building a Home in the Wilderness with Chris Czajkowski

* Laura Ashley USA, Inc .-Corporate Headquarters for the Home Accessories, Women's & Children's Retailer located in the former PTL World Outreach Center ( Pyramid Building )

The genealogical collection, originally housed in the Julia Ideson Building in Downtown Houston, moved to the William Clayton Home, a Georgian-style house built in 1917, in the Museum District in 1968.

On 2 August 2011 the Grade 2 * Listed Building Calverton Manor featured in BBC2's Restoration Home television series.

* Lyons, Linda Brody, Building a Landmark: A Guide to the Historic Home of the National Building Museum, National Building Museum, Washington D. C., 1999

While with the firm, he also worked on two other family projects: the All Souls Church in Chicago for his uncle, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, and the Hillside Home School I in Spring Green for two of his aunts.

* The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago

The largest regular events are the Chicago Auto Show each February, the International Home and Housewares Show each March and the National Restaurant Association Annual Show each May.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

The most notable were the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1976 with the original SportsChannel ( now MSG Plus ) and later branched out into Chicago and Florida ; Prime Network, which went on the air in 1983 with the charter member being Home Sports and Entertainment ( now FSN Southwest ) and later branched out onto the West Coast as " Prime Sports "; and SportSouth, the RSN operated by Turner Broadcasting.

* Sweet Home Chicago, Big City Blues, 1946-1966 Traveling Exhibition: September 2003-January 2004

In the 1880s, Several professors from the University of Chicago formed the Chicago Club Summer Home association.

Cooke's funeral was held in Chicago at A. R Leak Funeral Home, where thousands of fans had lined up for over four city blocks to view his body.

The same can be said of " She Caught the Katy " ( originally written by Taj Mahal and Yank Rachell ) and " Jailhouse Rock " ( sung by Elvis Presley ) or " Sweet Home Chicago " ( Robert Johnson ), acknowledging the fact that covers can become even more famous than original performances.

The second of the two shows took place on August 26 and featured a jam session, including Vaughan, with Clapton, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, and Jimmie Vaughan, who performed " Sweet Home Chicago " as the finale to Clapton's set ; Clapton introduced them as " the best guitar players in the entire world ".

He also composed " Chicago Song " for David Sanborn and co-wrote "' Til My Baby Comes Home ", " It's Over Now ", " For You to Love ", and " Power of Love " for Luther Vandross.

Category: Burials at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago

There she obtained the permission of Archbishop Michael Corrigan, the Archbishop of New York, to found an orphanage, which is located in West Park, New York, today and is known as Saint Cabrini Home -- the first of 67 institutions she founded: in New York, Chicago, Des Plaines, Seattle, New Orleans, Denver, Golden, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and in countries throughout South America and Europe.

Category: Burials at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago

She is buried near her husband at Waldheim Cemetery, near the Haymarket Monument ( now Forest Home Cemetery ), in Forest Park, Illinois ( then part of the city of Chicago ).

Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, People, Ladies Home Journal, McCall's, Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune.

Category: Burials at Forest Home Cemetery, Chicago

Home to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Sinfonietta, Symphony Center includes the 2, 522-seat Orchestra Hall, which dates from 1904 ; Buntrock Hall, a rehearsal and performance space ; Grainger Ballroom, an event space overlooking Michigan Avenue and the Art Institute of Chicago ; a public multi-story rotunda ; Rhapsody restaurant ; and administrative offices.