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Monday, March 9, 2015

Inland Steel (The Big Announcement) -- March 9, 1955

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Inland Steel from the north side with its exterior columns supporting the massive two-story cantilevered entry (JWB Photo) Sixty years ...
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Monday, March 2, 2015

Jeanne Gang's Aqua and its Neighbor

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Aqua and its Wacker Buddy (JWB Photo) Five years ago an article in The New Yorker began with this description of Jeanne Gang’s Aqua ....
Sunday, March 1, 2015

Fort Sheridan and the Lakota: Part Three -- March 1, 1891

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The Grand Opera House (Ryerson-Burnham Archives The place where in 1912 The Wizard of Oz would be seen for the first time Come with ...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Kosciusko Statue Rejected -- February 25, 1903

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The original Chudzinski Whoopsie (Chicago Tribune, February 26, 1903) On this date, February 25, in 1903 the Chicago Tribune announced...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Chicago Stockyards and Women -- February 22, 1902

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In the middle of February, 1902 Adolph Strasser, who had been one of the five men to organize the convention of 1886 that would lead to the...
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