Courthouse Place
For its first 35 years, the present Courthouse Place building housed the Cook County Criminal Courts and was the site of many legendary trials, including Adolph Luetgert, Leopold and Loeb, the Black Sox Scandal, and the jazz age trials that formed the basis of the play and musical Chicago. The 1928 play The Front Page was written by newspaper reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur based on the day-to-day events here. Other authors of Chicago's 1920s literary renaissance who were employed in the fourth floor pressroom include Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, and Vincent Starrett. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on November 13, 1984 with ID 8400028, and was labelled as significant in the areas of law, politics/government, and architecture, in the last quarter of the 1800s and the first quarter of the 1900s, especially 1892. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 9, 1993.
In 1929, the Criminal Courts left the 54 West Hubbard Street location as did the Cook County Jail, and the building was then occupied by the Chicago Board of Health and other city agencies. After poor alterations and years of neglect, the building was acquired by a private developer, Friedman Properties, Ltd in 1985. The property was restored and refurbished as "Courthouse Place," an office development later expanded to include the restoration of other surrounding historic buildings.
North Market Hall was previously erected at the site in 1851.
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- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ 431 N Dearborn St - Google Maps (plaque on east wall of building). North-west corner of N Dearborn St and W Hubbard St: Google Street View. August 2019.
North Market Hall Erected A.D. 1851 / Criminal Court Building [Erected A.D.] 1872 / Taken Down And Rebuilt [A.D.] 1892
- ^ "NPGallery Asset Detail: Cook County Criminal Court Building". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System. National Register of Historic Places Collection. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. November 13, 1984. National Register Information System ID: 84000281, Asset IDs: 0a0dc5c4-8599-4d10-91c0-8a76957f35d8 and 1a1a2e8e-9ab2-4741-90c2-0984ea0a9a25. Archived from the original on December 24, 2022. Retrieved October 10, 2023.
- ^ "Courthouse Place". Chicago Landmarks. City of Chicago.
- ^ "The Cook County Criminal Court and Jailhouse". Chicagology. Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. Retrieved 30 April 2018.
- ^ "Cook County Jail's History". Cook County Sheriff's Office. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
- ^ "What's That Building? The Old Cook County Court". WBEZ Chicago. 2016-04-21. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "Court House Place – Chicago". Friedman Properties. Retrieved October 17, 2024.