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Timeline of the City's History : 1887


A Rainy Day on Michigan Avenue

A Rainy Day on Michigan Avenue
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A rainy day on Michigan Avenue between Adams and Monroe Streets in the late eighties. A funeral headed by a detachment of military has attracted a line of citizens on either side of the boulevard.

Courtesy of "Chicago and Its Makers" (Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1929).

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