1889: State Street, Looking North from Quincy in 1889

State Street, Looking North from Quincy in 1889

Gunther’s Candy Store, housing the famous Gunter Historical Collection is shown on the left. At this time the Fair still occupied the northwest corner of Adams Street with a two-story building which adjorned their six-story building on the north.

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

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