Exelon Tube

Description of the Collection

Blueprint drawings for the McCormick Tribune Campus Center at Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago), including “the [Exelon] tube” through which The L (CTA train) will run. Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA; Rotterdam, Holland), Rem Koolhaas architect, and Holabird & Root LLP (Chicago), architect and engineers. This set of drawings is the 100% Design Development drawings dated Dec. 10, 1999 and Feb. 18, 2000.

Description of the Collection Photographs (available as digital images on a CD and as color prints) of McCormick Tribune Campus Center on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology taken by Richard Barnes at the request of IIT to serve as publicity photos. The images are identified as follows, per the CD: 1. Computer Hall 1. 2. Founders' Wall 2 [icons]. 3. Founders' Wall 3 [faces of (l - r): Frank W. Gunsaulus; Allen Lewis; Robert Pritzker; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]. 4. Hallway [northeast corridor]. 5. Interiors 1...

Description of the Collection

Noise Mitigation and the CTA Green Line: Catalyst for Campus and Community Transformation; Proposal for Funding Support, a document created by Illinois Institute of Technology to solicit governmental and private support for the structure which came to be identified as the Exelon Tube above the McCormick Tribune Campus Center on the campus of IIT, November 1998.