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Che Ca Gou sculpture, Chicago Place

 

View of an anodized metal sculpture installed on the rear wall of the top-level food court in the Chicago Place shopping center (700 North Michigan Avenue). The sculpture depicts several of the city's iconic skyscrapers, including the John Hancock building and the Sears Tower (now Willis Tower), arrayed in a fan shape and interspersed with large metal feathers, suggesting a Native American headdress. A group of wild onions are depicted in the center of the sculpture, and a curved panel below the cluster of onions bears the inscription "and the Illini called it Che Ca Gou".

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Title:
Che Ca Gou sculpture, Chicago Place
Date of Original:
1990; 1990 (Chicago Place)
Identifier:
bru008_02_qF.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3vh60
Type:
Image
Notes:
The Chicago Place shopping mall closed in early 2009.


Rights:
In copyright - non-commercial use permitted
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Cities and towns
Sculpture
Shopping malls

Photographer:
Brubaker, Charles William, 1926-2002
Contributor
Solomon Cordwell Buenz (Firm)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Form:
Photographs
Medium:
color slides
Extent:
35 mm

Collection Information


Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
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Folder:
8
Repository:
University of Illinois at Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Geographic Information

Near North Side (Chicago, Ill.)