Chicago's Historic Prairie Avenue
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Prairie Avenue evolved into Chicago's most exclusive residential street during the last three decades of the 19th century.
Chicago's wealthiest citizensMarshall Field, Philip Armour, and George Pullmanwere soon joined by dozens of Chicago's business, social, and civic leaders, establishing a neighborhood that the Chicago Heraldproclaimed, a cluster of millionaires not to be matched for numbers anywhere else in the country.
Substantial homes were designed by the leading architects of the day...
























