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Diorama of Rush Street at the Chicago Historical Society, 1966
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When the Chicago Historical Society moved into its new building in Lincoln Park in 1931, curators intended to have no "permanent" exhibits, with the exception of eight dioramas portraying notable scenes and events in Chicago history. The dioramas have persisted, and are interesting today not only for their visualizations of early Chicago, but as artifacts indicating something about how Chicago history was interpreted in 1931.
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