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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
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the station rebuilt using custom-made bricks, the exact texture and color of the originals." 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.
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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,
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The Chicago Police Department vacated the station in 1998. After extensive renovation, the red brick and limestone building became the home of the
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station is architecturally significant as an example of pre-1945 police stations in Chicago. It was designed by
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7th District Police Station is located in Chicago metropolitan area
Chicago, Illinois
41°51′52″N 87°39′2″W / 41.86444°N 87.65056°W / 41.86444; -87.65056
Edbrooke, Willoughby James
96000515
Maxwell Street
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Fire of 1871
Romanesque style
Willoughby J. Edbrooke
Franklin Pierce Burnham
National Register of Historic Places
University of Illinois at Chicago
Hill Street Blues
Chicago P.D.
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"National Register Information System – (#96000515)"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


"History of Maxwell Street Station"
the original
"Maxwell St. Station"
the original
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