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"Brick building, arched windows, opened in nineteen twenty-seven. For about twenty years this held the most famous resident of the city of Chicago, and he was a gorilla. His name was Bushman. He arrived in nineteen thirty as a two-year-old weighing thirty-eight pounds, bought from a missionary in West Africa for three thousand five hundred dollars."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
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Hear the full story at The Primate House
This is just one of 10 stops on the The Best Free Day in Chicago tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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