Dirksen Federal Building

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The Dirksen Federal Building is a major federal office skyscraper in Chicago that houses U.S. courts and government agencies as part of the city’s downtown civic center complex.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf courthouse building
federal office building
skyscraper
architect Fazlur Rahman Khan
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
architecturalStyle International Style
category Federal courthouses of the United States
Modernist architecture in Illinois
Skyscraper office buildings in Chicago
city Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: "Chicago"
coordinates 41.8783° N, 87.6297° W
country United States of America
surface form: "United States"
function federal courthouse
federal office building
hasElevator yes
hasFeature elevated plaza at complex level
rectilinear modernist façade
hasParking limited or restricted parking
hasPublicAccess yes
hasUse administrative offices
judicial functions
legal proceedings
height approximately 384 feet
houses United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
federal government offices
inception 1964
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Illinois
locatedInTimeZone Central Time Zone
location City of Chicago
surface form: "Chicago"
materialUsed bronze-colored aluminum
glass
steel
namedAfter Everett Dirksen
surface form: "Everett McKinley Dirksen"
nearPublicTransit Jackson station
Monroe station
neighboringBuilding Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse
surface form: "Everett McKinley Dirksen U.S. Courthouse Annex (courthouse complex)"

Dirksen Federal Building
surface form: "Kluczynski Federal Building"
numberOfFloors 30
ownedBy U.S. General Services Administration
surface form: "United States General Services Administration"
partOf Chicago Federal Center
Chicago Loop
downtown civic center complex
securityProvider Federal Protective Service
servedBy Chicago Transit Authority
streetAddress 219 South Dearborn Street
yearCompleted 1964

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Federal Center Plaza adjacentTo Dirksen Federal Building
this entity surface form: "John C. Kluczynski Federal Building"
Loop hasGovernmentBody Dirksen Federal Building
Dirksen Federal Building neighboringBuilding Dirksen Federal Building
this entity surface form: "Kluczynski Federal Building"