Wigwam (Chicago)

The Wigwam was a convention center and meeting hall that served as the site of the 1860 Republican National Convention. It was located in Chicago, Illinois, at Lake Street and Market near where the Chicago River divides into its north and south branches, on property owned by Garrett Theological Seminary. This site had previously been the site of the Sauganash Hotel, Chicago's first hotel. This is where Abraham Lincoln the party's nomination, which led to the U.S. Presidency. The name "Wigwam" was later associated with host locations for both the 1864 Democratic National Convention and the 1892 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

The building

The two-story Wigwam was built by Chicago business leaders to attract the 1860 Convention. It was a temporary structure, built entirely of wood in little more than a month, and could accommodate 10–12,000 people. The building was used for political and patriotic meetings during the Convention and the American Civil War. It was an antebellum custom to call a political campaign headquarters a "Wigwam", derived from wigwam, a Native American word – specifically in the Eastern Abenaki language – for "temporary shelter". ==History==

History

Sauganash Hotel Mark Beaubien built a tavern on the site of the later Wigwam in 1829–30. In 1831, he added a frame to the log structure to create Chicago's first hotel, the Sauganash Hotel, The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1851, These were the first Chicago visits for each party's national convention. Today Today, the corner of W. Lake Street and N. Wacker Drive bears the address of 191 North Wacker. This address is in the Loop community area in Chicago. The 157 m (516 ft), 37-story office tower, named 191 North Wacker, was designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and built in 2002. The major tenants include Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Much Shelist, Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Heitman Financial, and RSM McGladrey. ==References==

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