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Steel skeletons under terra-cotta skins on a square mile that learned to build tall after a fire took everything. A river the city reversed to keep its drinking water clean. A lakefront held open by century-old lawsuits and a 1909 plan still half-finishing. The American city that treats rebuilding as a discipline.

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Available Walks

The Loop: The Square Mile That Taught America How to Build Tall
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The Loop: The Square Mile That Taught America How to Build Tall

4.4075 min2.4 km
The River Chicago Sent the Other Way
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The River Chicago Sent the Other Way

4.6955 min1.75 km
Oak Park: Where an American Architecture Began
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Oak Park: Where an American Architecture Began

4.5360 min1.6 km
The Magnificent Mile: A Warehouse Street That Became America's Boulevard in Fifteen Years
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The Magnificent Mile: A Warehouse Street That Became America's Boulevard in Fifteen Years

4.4175 min2.4 km
The Lakefront Burnham Promised: A One-Hundred-Year Plan, Half Built
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The Lakefront Burnham Promised: A One-Hundred-Year Plan, Half Built

4.2795 min4 km

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