Civic Opera Building

The Civic Opera Building combines a 45 story, Art Deco-style office tower with a 3,650-seat opera theater. The lower part of the Wacker Drive facade was designed in an ornate French Renaissance Revival style to resemble the Paris Opera House. Dramatic building setbacks facing the Chicago River led to the nickname "Insull's throne," a reference to its developer, utilities magnate Samuel Insull. Since 1954, the building has been the home of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, a world-renowned opera company.

Chicago, Illinois · United States