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Corner of Clark and South Water Streets, c. 1866 (Lithograph, published by Jevne & Almini)

Bygone Days in Chicago
from Bygone Days in Chicago: Recollections of the "Garden City" of the Sixties, by Frederick Francis Cook (1910)
(5200 words)

Chicago as It Was
"Chicago as It Was," from Grace Greenwood [Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott], New Life in New Lands: Notes of Travel (1873)
(2400 words)



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The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
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