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South Water Market

South Water Market
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When South Water Street was made over into Wacker Drive there was a wholesale exodus of the scores of commission houses. This shows the new home of the South Water Market between Fourteenth Place and Fifteenth Street from Morgan Street to Racine Avenue.

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

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