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Benito Juarez Statue
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Jane Byrne Park
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Vienna Beef
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Union Stock Yard
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Benito Juarez Statue
Heriberto Galindo, the consul general of Mexico in Chicago, presented this statue of Mexican president
Legacy Walk
Chicago's Legacy Walk was dedicated on National Coming-Out Day, October 11, 2012, in the heart of Boystown,
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 ...
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 ...
Vienna Beef
Chicago's rapid transition from a small town into a major metropolitan center over the course of the nineteenth century resulted, in part, from the city’s role in the meat and grain industries. Chicago fed the growing nation, and ...
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 ...
Fort Dearborn
In 1803, the United States government built Fort Dearborn near the mouth of the Chicago River to guard the portage between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin. There was very little settlement in Chicago at the time ...
Chicago Water Tower and Pumping Station
The Water Tower and Pumping Station buildings were constructed in the late 1860s to collect and distribute municipal water. These structures supported the new two-mile long intake tunnel, which was built underneath Lake Michigan to draw clean water ...
Ulysses S. Grant Monument
The size and placement of the bronze equestrian statue portraying Ulysses S. Grant is a testament to Grant's relationship to Chicago and the state of Illinois. Though born in Ohio, Grant was a central figure in Illinois' Civil War experience. ...
