Samuel Insull
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Samuel Insull was a British American business magnate. He was an innovator and investor based in Chicago who helped create an integrated electrical infrastructure in the United States. Insull created
Insull in 1920
Samuel Insull, president of Commonwealth Edison, in 1910
Insull (front row left) at the presentation of the first Franklin Medal to Thomas Edison (front row center) in 1915
Insull on the cover of Time, November 1926
Civic Opera Building
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The Civic Opera Building is a 45-story office tower located at 20 North Wacker Drive in Chicago. The building opened November 4, 1929, and has an Art Deco interior. It contains a 3,563-seat opera hous
Samuel Insull
…life Gladys Wallis, aged 18, in Munsey's Magazine, October 1893 Insull's home in Vernon Hills, Illinois, built 1914–16 (2013) A 2007 photo of Chicago's Civic Opera Building, a 45-story skyscraper built by Insull, completed in 1929 On May 22, 1899, Samuel Insull married a "tiny, exquisitely beautiful and clever" Broadway…
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Wacker Drive façade of the Civic Opera Building with part of the arcade
Detail of a sculpture by Henry Hering