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| LaSalle Street Tunnel, 1996 (Digital photograph) |
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| Completed just three months before the fire, the LaSalle Street tunnel afforded a fireproof escape route from the South to the North Divisions. The resulting crush of frightened humanity in the tunnel figures in several descriptions of the conflagration, as well as in E.P. Roe's Barriers Burned Away. The north end of the tunnel now serves as a parking area. The view here is looking south, with the Board of Trade looming at the foot of LaSalle Street. | |||
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