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Palmolive Building

Skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Palmolive Building, formerly the Playboy Building, is a 37-story Art Deco building at 919 N. Michigan Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Palmolive Building” as skyscraper in Chicago, Illinois. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Palmolive, Building and Skyscraper.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 21-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Palmolive, Building and Skyscraper providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Palmolive Building” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.