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The Sutherland Lounge was a music venue in the Sutherland Hotel that hosted some of the most famous jazz and blues musicians to make it from Chicago

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Maxwell Street was famous for it's market and the blues musicians who would play out front of stores and on the corners

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Blues song recorded by Muddy Waters

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This is an image of a mural created in 1980 by ten street artists as a protest against war and unrest in Central America in the Pilson neighborhood of Chicago

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'Fly Me To The Moon' by Frank Sinatra

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1984 by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)

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Field Museum of Natural History and its collections originated from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and is now one of the largest such museums in the world. The Field Museum is also an example of classical revival.

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Sue the T. Rex is the largest, most extensive and best preserved Tyrannosaurus Rex specimen ever found at over 90% recovered by bulk. It was discovered in the summer of 1990, by Sue Hendrickson, a paleontologist, and was named after her. The fossil…

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The John Hancock Center at its construction was the second tallest building in the world. It is now the 4th tallest skyscraper in Chicago, IL. It's architectural style is Structural Expressionism.

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A crane sits on the bank of the Chicago River and is set along side the equipment to straighten the chicago River in 1929
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