Evan Frank Lysacek is an American
figure skater. He is the
2007 & 2008 U.S. National Champion, 2008
Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, and a two-time
World bronze medalist (2005–2006). At the end of the 2007–2008 season, Lysacek was ranked 7th in the world. He was the
United States Olympic Committee's Male Athlete of the Month for November 2006.
The
Marshall Field and Company Building is a
department store building and
National Historic Landmark on
State Street in
Chicago,
Illinois,
United States. It was designed in the
Beaux-Arts and
Commercial style by
Daniel Burnham for
Marshall Field; the north end (including the columned entrance) was built in 1901–1902, and the south end in 1905–1906. It was the flagship store of the
Marshall Field's department store chain until
The May Department Stores Company was
acquired by
Federated Department Stores and converted the store to
Macy's in 2006, and remains the
Midwest Macy's flagship store. The building is located in the
Chicago Loop area of the
downtown central business district and it takes up the entire
city block bounded clockwise from the west by
North State Street, East
Randolph Street, North Wabash Avenue, and East Washington Street. Field and partners founded their Chicago store in 1852, and first built an expansive shopping emporium on this site in 1868. The 1901 building was the fourth for the department store at this site.
Marshall Field's established numerous important business "firsts" in this building and in the series of previous elaborate decorative structures on this site for the last century and a half, and it is regarded as one of the three most influential establishments in the nationwide development of the department store and in the commercial business economic history of the United States. The name of the stores formerly headquartered at this building changed on September 9, 2006, as a result of the merger that produced Macy's, Inc. and led to the integration of the Marshall Field's stores into the Macy's now-nationwide retailing network.
The building, which is the third largest store in the world, was both declared a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 2, 1978, and it was designated a Chicago Landmark on November 1, 2005. The building architecture is known for its multiple atria (several balconied atrium - "Great Hall") and for having been built in stages over the course of more than two decades. Its ornamentation includes a mosaic vaulted ceiling designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany and a pair of well-known outdoor street-corner clocks at State and Washington, and later at State and Randolph Streets, which serve as symbols of the store since 1897. (Full article...)
"[Chicago] is the greatest and most typically American of all cities. New York is bigger and more spectacular and can outmatch it in other superlatives, but it is a “world” city, more European in some respects than American." — John Gunther
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