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Styx's seventh album released in 1977 featuring the single "Come Sail Away"

An account of Daniel Burnham (the primary architect of the World's Fair) and H. H. Holmes (a serial killer based out of a nearby hotel) and how their lives intertwined, written in an accessible, novelistic style. It has 11 awards from various…

Chicago newspaper popular in the latter half of the nineteenth-century founded in 1854. The paper was originally published in the fifth story of the McCormick Block, on the corner of Randolph and Dearborn streets. The circulation was but little over…

Chicago franchise of the Major League Baseball and a member of the National League. Winner of the 1908 World Series against the Detroit Lions, and contender in the 2016 NLCS series to advance to the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. One of…

The Bowman and The Spearman (also known collectively as Equestrian Indians, or simply Indians), are two bronze equestrian sculptures standing as gatekeepers in Congress Plaza, at the intersection of Congress Parkway and Michigan Avenue in Chicago's…

This is a picture of the bar at the Berghoff in the 1950s.

First page of the sheet music for song titled, "The Avenues of Chicago"

This is an image of the alternating power plant featuring Tesla coils at the Westinghouse exhibit at the 1893, Chicago Columbian Exhibition

Honeyboy Edwards performs 'Sweet Home Chicago' at the Archive of Folk Song at the Library of Congress, 50th Anniversary Concert,