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When it opened, it was the tallest building in Chicago, the heaviest modern building on earth, and the first structure anywhere to combine a theater, hotel and offices under one roof. The Auditorium Theatre at 50 East Ida B. Wells Drive was dedicated on December 9, 1889, by President Benjamin Harrison, with opera idol Adelina Patti singing Home, Sweet Home to a standing-room crowd. The building was Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan's masterpiece, commissioned by civic idealist Ferdinand Peck to ...