Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1899 — CHICAGO’S GREAT BUILDING. [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO’S GREAT BUILDING.

It Will Be the Moat Dignified Public Structure in the We»t. The nation is spending more than $4.000,000 to provide quarters in Chicago for the Federal courts and for the transaction of its mammoth business in the district. The new United States Government building which will accommodate the several Federal departments is designed iu the form of a great granite cross, covering au area of 380 by 310 feet, and it will be the moat dignified public structure in the West. Throe of its floors —the basement and first and second stories—will cover the entire block bounded by Adams. Dearborn and Clark streets and Jackson boulevard. Upon this base the cross-like structure rises six storie9 higher, or 128 feet, in the air. Then comes the huge dome, a building in it-

self, reaching eight stories farther T«5 a height of 295% feet. Rising from each pavilion formed by the first three floors, and supporting each arm of the cross, are four massive monoliths, fifty feet high and five feet in diameter. The doorway will be arched, thirty-six feet high. From the immense rotunda, extending from the Basement nearly to the top of the dome, will run two granite stairways and six elevator.shafts. This rotunda is to be light and roomy, and will be sixty-five feet in diameter. The building will be constructed of rough granite from the quarries of Maine