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

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 controversial post-modern building, the James R. Thompson Center, was built in 1985 by Helmut Jahn.

Original movie poster form His New Job, a movie filmed in Chicago and written and directed by Charles Chaplin in 1914. The movie was premiered on February 1, 1915. 

Chess Records was a Chicago based music record label primarily blues, rhythm, soul music, gospel music, early rock and roll, and jazz. The label was founded by Polish brothers Leonard and Phil Chess and eventually was sold off to Universal Music…

1871 Harper's Magazine illustration depicting Mrs. O'Leary milking the cow after the Great Chicago Fire. It was believed that Mrs. O'Leary accidentally started the fire while milking her cow.

Bronze with green patina

Nightlife depicts a crowded cabaret in the South Side neighborhood of Bronzeville, with people seated around tables on the right and at a bar on the left.

The Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance was founded in 1998, 90 years after the building the Conservatory in 1908, in the aftermath of a hail storm that greatly damaged the building.

This is an image of the 1922 a sculpture by Loredo Taft called the Fountain of Time. It is located in Washington Park , Cottage Grove Avenue, Washington Park, Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture commemorates a century of peace between Great Britain &…