7th District Police Station

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7th District Police Station
7th District Police Station is located in Chicago metropolitan area
7th District Police Station
Location949 W. Maxwell St. Chicago, Illinois 60608
Coordinates41°51′52″N 87°39′2″W / 41.86444°N 87.65056°W / 41.86444; -87.65056
Built1888; 136 years ago (1888)
ArchitectEdbrooke, Willoughby James; Burnham, Franklin Pierce
Architectural styleRomanesque
NRHP reference No.96000515[1]
Added to NRHPMay 2, 1996

The 7th District Police Station, or

Chicago Fire of 1871
. The housing and sanitation situation in the district was substandard, and the residents poor. Criminal activity flourished.

The Romanesque style station is architecturally significant as an example of pre-1945 police stations in Chicago. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

The Chicago Police Department vacated the station in 1998. After extensive renovation, the red brick and limestone building became the home of the

University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department. The renovations were done in a manner designed to uphold the historic significance of the building's architecture. "The building's original windows were sent to a company in Kankakee for restoration, the masonry cleaned and repaired, the roof replaced, and parapets at the top of the station rebuilt using custom-made bricks, the exact texture and color of the originals."[3]
In order to be handicap-accessible, the renovations included constructing a new street-level main entrance where the vehicle entrance had been, to the east of the original front doors and their six steps.

The building is known in popular culture because the outside was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening and closing credits, and establishing shots of the iconic television series, Hill Street Blues.[2][4] It is also used as the exterior of the precinct house in the television series Chicago P.D., and the television series Sense8.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System – (#96000515)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b "History of Maxwell Street Station". University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department. University of Illinois. 2008-06-07. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  3. ^ "Maxwell St. Station". University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department. University of Illinois. 2008-06-07. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  4. ISBN 0-595-23021-0. (Excerpt at [1]
    , accessed 2008-06-07)
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