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FRIDAY: What is it like Growing Up in a Frank Lloyd Wright House? - lecture by Kim Bixler, at the Blackstone Library (afternoon) and Unity Temple (evening) May 17, 2013Also Friday: Chicago Skyline Collection, Closing Reception
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I'm been reading Captive City by Ovid Demaris (muckraking expose from 1970) and apparently Henry Crown made a lot of easy money by selling limestone that had been originally excavated from the Sanitary Canal dig at public expense. A manufacturing district was also set up in 1990 so that the lucrative operation could continue unabated.
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