What’s That Building? The ‘I AM’ Temple in Chicago’s Loop
By Morning Shift
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What’s That Building? The ‘I AM’ Temple in Chicago’s Loop
By Morning Shift
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In our new Morning Shift series, we ask Dennis Rodkin of Crain’s Chicago Business: “What’s that building?”
For this first installment, Dennis digs deep into the history of the I AM Temple at 176 W. Washington Street in Chicago’s Loop. The 15-story building started its life as an Elks Lodge in 1916 and was later converted into a temple for a spiritual-awakening organization founded in the early 1930s by Chicagoans Ray and Edna Ballard.
Click through the slideshow at the top while you listen to our conversation with Rodkin.