Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago was designed by Patrick Charles Keely, a Brooklyn architect hired in February 1874, for the Diocese of Chicago. The infobox also lists Henry Schlacks, Charles Murphy and Joseph McCarthy, whom the text does not mention. The infobox calls July 19, 1874 the groundbreaking, while the text calls it the cornerstone laying. It was dedicated on November 21, 1875. The style is Gothic Revival.
The cathedral is 233 feet long and 126 feet wide, with a 70-foot ceiling and a 210-foot spire. Seating is 1,100 in the introduction and 1,110 in the body. The total cost was 260,000 dollars.
It replaced St. Mary's Cathedral, destroyed in the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. Pope John Paul II visited in 1979. A 2009 fire led to a reopening that August. It was listed on the National Register on May 25, 2000. The article gives no hours.
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