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Welcome to “Tour Guide: Marina City”. We aim to make your exploration of Marina City a bit easier. We are a tour guide in the palm of your hand. You can customize your experience to suit your needs and interests. For example, do you want to know more about the history or background of Marina City? We can include that for you.Would you like to listen to the information instead of reading it? Sure. And what about those kids? How about we entertain them with a scavenger hunt?

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The original building in which the House of Blues now resides was the Movie Theater, which really wasn’t being used. The House of Blues is a chain of 13 live music concert halls and restaurants. The first location, in Massachusetts, was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett and Dan Aykroyd. After opening two more locations, the Marina City location was opened in 1996. Tigrett commented on the Chicago location saying, “Chicago is culturally behind the blues, and it’s an honor to be bringing something that people here love so much. We have to be careful to create something that people will be proud of.”

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opening two more locations, the Marina City location was opened in 1996. Tigrett commented on the Chicago location saying, “Chicago is culturally behind the blues, and it’s an honor to be bringing something that people here love so much. We have to be careful to create something that people will be proud of.”

“This was the city where blues got plugged in,” Aykroyd told the Chicago Tribune. “It became electric here in Chicago. And we’re going to electrify the city with this.” And that it did, housing musicians such as Kid Rock, Guns N’ Roses, Boys II Men, and BB King. Upcoming concerts include Motion City Soundtrack, All Time Low, Citizen Cope, Jake Owen, The Starting Line and Sister Hazel.

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Marina City is an iconic residential complex in Chicago, IL designed by architect Bertrand Goldberg. He was an innovative architect, with strong interests in individual solutions, betterment and the good of the community, and social spaces. The complex was designed in 1959 and completed in 1964. The complex consists of two corncob-shaped towers, The House of Blues, Sax Hotel, a bowling alley, a bank, a few restaurants, and a Marina. The towers are 65 stories which come to 587 feet tall, and at the time they were built, they were the tallest residential buildings in the world.

The complex was built to be a city within a city, and originally housed a theater, swimming pool, ice skating rink, gym, bowling alley, restaurants, and stores as well as the marina. As you can tell, these amenities have changed and updated as the years have passed. Originally, Goldberg designed the buildings to solve the problem of people moving out of the city into the suburbs. Chicago was becoming desolate. So he created this ‘city within a city’ that included every-thing you really would need, including your office in the 16-story office building. It really was all about convenience, housing a “teleview teller” near the tunnel to the office building, which was the 1960s ver-sion of an ATM, allowing the user to see the teller at Marina City Bank on closed-circuit television.

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The original building in which the House of Blues now resides was the Movie Theater, which really wasn’t being used. The House of Blues is a chain of 13 live music concert halls and restaurants. The first location, in Massachusetts, was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett and Dan Aykroyd. After opening two more locations, the Marina City location was opened in 1996. Tigrett commented on the Chicago location saying, “Chicago is culturally behind the blues, and it’s an honor to be bringing something that people here love so much. We have to be careful to create something that people will be proud of.”

“This was the city where blues got plugged in,” Aykroyd told the Chicago Tribune. “It became electric here in Chicago. And we’re going to electrify the city with this.” And that it did, housing musicians such as Kid Rock, Guns N’ Roses, Boys II Men, and BB King. Upcoming concerts include Motion City Soundtrack, All Time Low, Citizen Cope, Jake Owen, The Starting Line and Sister Hazel.

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