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"Look at this ridiculous building. It looks like a tiny castle that got lost on its way to medieval England and ended up on Michigan Avenue. This is the Chicago Water Tower — and the reason it looks so out of place is because everything around it burned to the ground in eighteen seventy-one — and this weird little Gothic tower just... didn't."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
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Hear the full story at Water Tower
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