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8 Chicago Height Records, by the Record: The City That Raised Its Streets, a Footprint File Where Two Stories Is King — and a Stories Column That Tops Out at 110
Chicago’s height story, with receipts: the streets themselves were raised four to five feet on average in the 1850s, a building among the world’s first skyscrapers went up – and came down…
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