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1879
Art Institute founded
1881
Pullman City opens: Company Town, with 8,000 residents
1883
Standardized national railroad time introduced in Chicago
1884
City Population doubles: Total population reaches 629,895
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South Water Street
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A view of South Water Street east from Franklin Street in early eighties.
Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).
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