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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

Daniel Burnham designed it for free, and one of the world's great orchestras has played it for more than a century. Symphony Center at 220 South Michigan Avenue in the Chicago Loop is the home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, anchored by Orchestra Hall, which opened on 14 December 1904 with founder Theodore Thomas conducting the dedicatory concert. Thomas had campaigned for years to move his orchestra out of the cavernous Auditorium Theatre; CSO trustee Burnham - the architect-planner of the W...