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Flamingo

Flamingo, a sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, is a 53-foot-tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the in , Illinois, United States.
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Photo: JeremyA, Public domain.
  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork type: sculpture
  • Description: sculpture in Chicago, Illinois, by Alexander Calder
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kluczynski Federal Building and Chicago "L".

Government building
Photo: Local hero, Public domain.
The John C. is a skyscraper in the downtown located at 230 South Dearborn Street. The 45-story structure was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and completed in 1974 as the last portion of the new Federal Center.

Photo: lazytom, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Chicago "L" is the rapid transit system serving the city of and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of . Operated by the , it is the fourth-largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms… is situated 980 feet east of Flamingo.

Courthouse
Photo: Ken Lund, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The , commonly referred to as the Dirksen Federal Building, is a skyscraper in the at 219 South Dearborn Street.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Loop and Jewelers Row District.

Photo: Poco a poco, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the central business district of , bounded by the Chicago River to the north and west, Harrison Street to the south, and Lake Michigan to the east.

Neighborhood
The is a historic district in the community area of Chicago, Illinois in the . Running along Wabash Avenue, primarily between East Washington Street and East Monroe Street, the buildings in the district were built…

Neighborhood
Photo: puroticorico, CC BY 2.0.
Printers Row, also known as Printing House Row, is a Chicago neighborhood located in . The area of Printers Row is generally defined by Ida B.

Flamingo

Latitude
41.87881° or 41° 52′ 44″ north
Longitude
-87.62968° or 87° 37′ 47″ west
Inception
1974
Open location code
86HJV9HC+G4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1299823016
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­sculpture
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q3073296
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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Thai—“Flamingo” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Flamingo”
  • Dutch: “Flamingo”
  • French: “Flamingo”
  • German: “Flamingo”
  • Hebrew: “פסל פלמינגו”
  • Italian: “Flamingo”
  • Japanese: “フラミンゴ (彫像)”
  • Japanese: “フラミンゴ”
  • Portuguese: “Flamingo”
  • Spanish: “Flamingo”
  • Swedish: “Flamingo”
  • Thai: “Flamingo (sculpture)”
  • Thai: “ฟลามิงโก”

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include US Senator Tammy Duckworth and US Senator Dick Durbin.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Flamingo”. Photo: JeremyA, Public domain.