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  Chicago (Night Scene)  
Chicago, ca. 1871
(F. Sala & Co., Berlin)
Arresting Images
Considerations of accuracy become secondary in this exercise in the sublime by an artist far from Chicago. The full moon and the burning city illuminate clouds and lake to sublime effect.


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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
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