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Benito Juarez Statue
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Fort Dearborn Footprint
Everleigh Club
The Hilliard Towers Apartments occupy what used to be a we...
Jane Byrne Park
Jane Byrne Park was dedicated in...
Victory Monument
The Victory Monument was one of ...
Schoenhofen Brewery
Peter...
Union Stock Yard
Opened in 1865, the Union Stock ...
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Benito Juarez Statue
Heriberto Galindo, the consul general of Mexico in Chicago, presented this statue of Mexican president
Fort Dearborn Footprint
Embedded into the sidewalk outside of the Michigan Avenue Fannie May store are dozens of small rectangular metal plates arranged in a curious pattern. A bit of exploration reveals ...
Everleigh Club
The Hilliard Towers Apartments occupy what used to be a well-trafficked block of South Dearborn Avenue. At 2131-2133 South Dearborn, not far from the present-day Hilliard gatehouse on West Cullerton, stood the famed Everleigh Club, a high-end bordello opened by ...
Jane Byrne Park
Jane Byrne Park was dedicated in 2014 in honor of Chicago's first female mayor. The location was chosen for its proximity to Byrne’s longtimeStreetervilleapartment, which overlooked the park.
Byrne defeated incumbent mayor ...
Victory Monument
The Victory Monument was one of the first memorials in the United States to honor the contributions and sacrifices made by black soldiers in an armed conflict. It commemorates the service of the Eighth Illinois regiment in World ...
Schoenhofen Brewery
PeterSchoenhofenandMattheusGottfried opened a brewery at 12th and Jefferson in 1860, continuing a tradition of brewing in Chicago that began with German immigrants in the 1830s. So popular was beer among ...
Union Stock Yard
Opened in 1865, the Union Stock Yard was the center of the nation’s meat industry until the mid-twentieth century. The demand for meat grew rapidly throughout the nineteenth century as Yankees and immigrants flooded the Midwest, and Chicago's ...
Soldiers' Home
The Soldiers' Home is the last remaining building in Chicago with a direct connection to the Civil War. The Northwest Sanitary Commission-- a branch of the U.S. Sanitary Commission-- opened the Soldiers' Home at Randolph and Wabash in ...
