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22-608: [REDACTED] Look up ulcc in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ULCC may refer to: Union League Club of Chicago , a social and civic club Ultra Large Crude Carrier , a class of oil tanker University of London Computer Centre , a supercomputer facility Ultra low-cost carrier , an airline that is operated with an especially high emphasis on minimizing operating costs See also [ edit ] Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS) Topics referred to by

44-635: A Fellow in 1885. He served as first Vice President from 1898 to 1899. In Chicago, he designed the Ludington Building and Manhattan Building , both built in 1891 and National Historic Landmarks . He also designed the Horticultural Building for the World's Columbian Exposition (1893) held in Chicago. Jenney is best known for designing the ten-story Home Insurance Building in Chicago. The building

66-686: A swimming pool and workout facilities. The Club’s art collection is extensive prompting the Chicago Tribune to call the Club “The other art institute in Chicago” The same article discusses the depth of the collection in historic and contemporary Chicago artists. According to the Club's website, the Library and Archives are one of the oldest amenities of the Club. The Library was renamed in 2019 to honor long-time member and jurist, George N. Leighton . The Club

88-575: A third term, Wentworth recruited heavily for the Club. The Club was incorporated as the Chicago Club of the Union League of America on December 19, 1879. It was later renamed The Union League Club of Chicago. The first directors included, among others, James B. Bradwell , John Wentworth, William Penn Nixon , and John H. Kedzie . The Club had two sets of officers its first year: James B Bradwell and Lewis Larned Coburn, both elected as President of

110-570: A wide range of public policy issues and serve as the conduit for the Club’s involvement in civic affairs". Some of these issues have included: The Club is one of The Top 100 Platinum City Clubs of the World for 2020/2021. The Club's first clubhouse was designed by William Le Baron Jenney . The current clubhouse, built on the same site as the first, was designed by Mundie & Jensen . The building houses meeting rooms, overnight guest rooms, 5 dining areas,

132-570: Is a Partner Organization with the Chicago Collections in order to share its archives more broadly. The Club sponsors and houses the administrative staff of 3 non-profit foundations, according to the Foundations' websites, According to the Club's website, it supports the men and women of the armed services through the following groups: William Le Baron Jenney William Le Baron Jenney (September 25, 1832 – June 14, 1907)

154-537: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Union League Club of Chicago Union League clubs, which are legally separate but share similar histories and maintain reciprocal links with one another, are also located in New York City and Philadelphia . Additional Union League clubs were formerly located in Brooklyn, New York and New Haven . Founded in 1879,

176-575: The Chicago School like Louis Sullivan , Daniel Burnham , William Holabird , and Martin Roche , performed their architectural apprenticeships on Jenney's staff. On May 8, 1867, Jenney and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hannah Cobb, from Cleveland, Ohio, were married. They had two children named Max and Francis. Jenney was elected an Associate of the American Institute of Architects in 1872 and became

198-479: The Club to have the amenities of a social club including fine dining. Today, according to the Club's website, it is both "a catalyst for action in nonpartisan political, economic and social arenas" and a social club with "an array of unique opportunities for entertainment and personal growth" and fine dining. The Club's website states: "the Public Affairs Committee and its various subcommittees address

220-584: The Club. In the Articles of Association, the Club's primary objectives are to (paraphrased): encourage loyalty to the Federal Government, defend the Union, inculcate good citizenship, maintain equality of all citizens, assure the purity of the ballot, oppose corruption, and secure honesty in the administration of National, State, and Municipal affairs. At the same time, some members, led by R. S. Critchell, wanted

242-631: The Eternal Silence section of Uptown's Graceland Cemetery . In 1998, Jenney was ranked number 89 in the book 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium . Original notes and papers of Jenney, including "Jenney's 1884 holograph notebook containing, among other things, structural calculations for the Home Insurance Building, and his undated sketch entitled 'Key to

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264-666: The Home Insurance Building, the first skyscraper in the world, erected in 1884 at the corner of LaSalle and Monroe Streets in Chicago. Another source cites the inspiration for the steel skyscraper as coming from vernacular, Philippine architecture, where wooden framed construction gave Jenney the idea. The Home Insurance Building was the first example of a steel skeleton building, the first grid of iron columns, girders, beams, and floor joists ever constructed. He died in Los Angeles , California , on June 15, 1907. After Jenney's death, his ashes were scattered over his wife's grave, just south of

286-492: The Lawrence Scientific school at Harvard in 1853, but transferred to École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures (École Centrale Paris) to study engineering and architecture . In Paris he discovers the writings of Viollet-le-Duc and he will become one of his followers: " the research and discoveries of Viollet le Duc surpass anything that any other author has been able to write". At École Centrale Paris , he learned

308-663: The Union League Club of Chicago (the Club) traces its roots to the earlier Union League of America . The Union League of America was founded during the American Civil War to support Abraham Lincoln and preserve the Union. Its first council was founded on June 25, 1862, in Pekin, Illinois and spread rapidly across the North with the first Chicago council formed on August 19, 1862. After

330-500: The end of the war, he had become a major, and was Engineer-in-Charge at Nashville 's Union headquarters. After the war, in 1867, Jenney moved to Chicago and began his own architectural office, which specialized in commercial buildings and urban planning . During the late 1870s, he commuted weekly to Ann Arbor, Michigan , to start and teach in the architecture program at the University of Michigan . In later years future leaders of

352-440: The last Chicago council of the Union League of America disbanded in 1877, Orrin H. Salisbury, a local politician and former member, conceived an idea of a new club in the same tradition that would influence local, state and national politics. He approached John Wentworth ("Long John") who saw in the idea a "marching club" to specifically support Ulysses S. Grant 's bid for a third term as President. Even after Grant lost his bid for

374-716: The latest iron construction techniques as well as the classical functionalist doctrine of Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand (1760–1834) - Professor of Architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique. He graduated in 1856, one year after his classmate, Gustave Eiffel , the designer of the Eiffel Tower. In 1861, he returned to the US to join the Union Army as an engineer in the Civil War , designing fortifications for Generals Sherman and Grant . By

396-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ULCC . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ULCC&oldid=1012866050 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

418-508: The weight of the building was reduced, thus allowing the possibility to construct even taller structures. Later, he solved the problem of fireproof construction for tall buildings by using masonry, iron, and terra cotta flooring and partitions. From 1889 to 1891, he displayed his system in the construction of the Second Leiter Building , also in Chicago. According to a popular story, one day he came home early and surprised his wife who

440-490: Was an American architect and engineer known for building the first skyscraper in 1884. In 1998, Jenney was ranked number 89 in the book 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium . Jenney was born in Fairhaven, Massachusetts , on September 25, 1832, the son of William Proctor Jenney and Eliza LeBaron Gibbs. Jenney began his formal education at Phillips Academy , Andover, in 1846, and at

462-402: Was reading. She put her book down on top of a birdcage and ran to meet him. He strode across the room, lifted the book, and dropped it back on the bird cage two or three times. Then, he exclaimed: "It works! It works! Don’t you see? If this little cage can hold this heavy book, why can’t an iron or steel cage be the framework for a whole building?" Jenney applied his new idea to the construction of

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484-457: Was the first fully metal-framed building and is considered the first skyscraper. It was built from 1884 to 1885, enlarged by adding two stories in 1891, and demolished in 1931. In his designs, he used metal columns and beams instead of stone and brick to support the building's upper levels. The steel needed to support the Home Insurance Building weighed only one-third as much as a ten-story building made of heavy masonry. Using this method,

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