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Illinois Mid-Century Modern Buildings (page 6)

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former Stuckey's
Springfield, IL
This former Stuckey's gas station convenience store was built in 1971. The building had been vacant since at least 2007. Since 2017, the building has housed the Route 66 Motorheads Bar & Grill.

This 30-foot-wide, Stuckey's billboard sign is made from painted sheet metal panels. The sign was installed on a country road near New Berlin, IL in the 1960s. In the late 1980s, it was moved to a farm in New Berlin. It was installed at Motorheads in 2019. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]

Ansar Shrine Center
Springfield, IL
The Ansar Shrine Center was built in 1967. The "Editorial Without Words" statue was donated in 2000. [map]

parking garage
Springfield, IL		 former Forum 30 Plaza Hotel
Springfield, IL
This parking garage with a spiral ramp was probably built in the 1960s. [map]

The Forum Thirty Plaza Hotel was built in 1974. It was later known as the Hilton Towers and the Springfield Hilton. The building has housed the Wyndham Springfield City Centre since 2015. [map]

parking garage
Springfield, IL
This parking garage was probably built in the 1970s. [map]

underground parking garage
Springfield, IL
This two-level underground parking garage has hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shell "mushroom" supports. It was built in 1968. [map]

Rail Splitter Rest Area
Springfield, IL		 office building [gone]
Sterling, IL
This Rail Splitter Rest Area building on I-55 was built in 1964. The brick building with a concrete roof houses restrooms. There are two of these buildings: one at the northbound and one at the southbound rest areas. [map]

This office building had a mid-century sunscreen material which was similar or identical to that used in the Harris Bank in Richmond, IN and the Anthony Rossi Studio in Canton, OH. This photo is from 2009. The building was still there in 2015 but had been demolished by the following year.

Spruce Hall
Tinley Park, IL
Spruce Hall was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and built in 1965. The round building was part of the Tinley Park Mental Health Center which was built in 1958. The site was closed by the state in 2012 and demolition is expected in 2025. [map]

Trenton City Hall
Trenton, IL
The Trenton City Hall was probably built in the 1960s. The entire facade is covered with intaglio glass blocks. [map]