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History Mystery: A lost photo of Chicago's Palmer House construction

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Black-and-white photo of a city construction site: workers on ground amid steel scaffolds and tall cranes; brick buildings and smokestacks loom in the background.

The construction site of the Palmer House, looking east towards Michigan Avenue on October 4, 1924. Photo: Chicago History Museum/Getty Images

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