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Article: Chicago show assesses state of city // Architecture reflects a lifestyle revolution
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 24, 1988
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((PHOTO CAPTION CONTINUED)) and Frank Lloyd Wright. ((CAPTION
ENDS))
Chicago grew up convinced it was Destiny's child - the hero city
reborn from flames as colossus of railroads, stockyards and
factories.
Europeans called it "the most American city," although sometimes
you couldn't tell whether they were being nice or nasty. Not that it
mattered to the barons of the Loop. They counted dollars and dreamed
about overpowering New York and its Wall Street.
And there was Chicago's architecture. Those lean, muscled,
somber high-rises were something new. The first steel-frame office
buildings, a revolution in city life, came out of the Loop. The
world copied, because it meant that after ...