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Close ✕Chicago
A city on the south-western shore of Lake Michigan, laid out on a rectangular grid across an almost perfectly flat lake plain, with a lakefront reserved as public parkland by…
41.9, -87.6 · approximate · incorporated 1837 – present
On the world
- A place in: Architecture Through Time · 16 places
- A place in: The Great Marathons · 15 places
- A place in: Music Across Continents · 7 places
Lines mark links and orders the records assert; no path between any two places is recorded, and none is drawn.
Connections
- is located in of Home Insurance Building, Chicago — The building stood at the corner of LaSalle and Adams Streets in the Chicago Loop from 1885 until its demolition in 1931.
- is located in of Chicago Marathon — The course is a loop starting and finishing in Grant Park on the Chicago lakefront.
- is transported to of The Great Migration — Chicago was the principal Northern destination for migrants leaving the Mississippi Delta, which is why the two places later sound like two ends of one line.
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