The Service Sanitation restroom in this photo is placed in front of a politically significant location, both for present-day events and historically speaking.
The Republican National Convention will be held here this month, interestingly in a city that elected three Socialist Party mayors in the past century. The venue shown in the background was also supposed to be the site of the Democratic National Convention in 2020, but those plans were waylaid by the COVID-19 pandemic.
And a few blocks away from this landmark, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest by a would-be assassin in 1912, after which the old Rough Rider gave a stirring campaign stump speech before receiving any medical attention.
Can you name this important building and the city where it is located? The first reader to respond with the correct answer wins the latest Where’s the Restroom? contest and our hearty congratulations via our PRO social media. Send your guesses to us at editor@promonthly.com.
Below are some clues to get you started:
1. This $524 million structure, completed in 2018, is covered in 9,000 sourced zinc panels that make up the roof and curved outside wall
2. The building has an odd name taken from a local naming rights company involved in financial services
3. This city is the home to the world’s largest music festival and is known by many as the City of Festivals
4. “Ride to live, live to ride” is the credo of this company known for showing its black and orange colors
5. This Great Lakes community has more than a half-million residents, and they like their beer
6. Solomon Juneau, Byron Kilbourn and George H. Walker were among this city’s founders in the mid-1800s
7. The Hop transports visitors around this bustling downtown.
