| Chicago is one of the largest and most
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| | what people call "castellated gothic
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| populated cities in the United States.
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| | style". The saw-toothed looking tower
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| It has many attractions for visitors and
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| | were drawn up and designed by Boyington
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| tourists, to travel around and see. One
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| | to captivate ones sense of a medieval
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| of the oldest and more popular of all the
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| | castle. The octagonal form symbolizes
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| attractions in Chicago is the City
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| | Gothic elements, and the slenderness of
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| Gallery in the Historic Water Tower. The
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| | the tower is supposed to symbolize a
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| Chicago Office of Tourism is staffed to
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| | "minaret quality". The total foundation
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| take care of and protect the gallery.
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| | of the tower has over 168 piles that are
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| Chicago Public Art Program is curator of
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| | filled up with concrete and capped off by
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| the gallery.The Historic Water Tower is
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| | one foot oak timbers. Enormous stones
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| Chicago's most beloved landmark and it
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| | that are edged in cement make up the base
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| has been for over 100 years. It was
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| | below the grade. All of the 40-foot
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| first designed and built by an architect
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| | sides have doorways and two large grand
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| by the name of William W. Boyington.
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| | windows. The second and third sections
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| Today, it stands as a memorial to the
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| | look similar to all the other sides
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| lives that were lost in the Tragic
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| | except they rise in height but their size
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| Chicago Fire. A little bit of history on
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| | decreases. The octagonal tower is
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| the Historic Water Tower would date back
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| | centered and set a little ways back from
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| to 1869 when it was first built to be the
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| | the top of the third section. From top
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| home of a 138-foot-tall piece of
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| | to bottom it rises over 154 feet from
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| standpipe. This enormous pipe was also
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| | ground level.The huge sandpipe was
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| three feet in diameter. The purpose of
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| | eventually removed in 1911, after it
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| the pipe was to maintain and equalize
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| | became apparent that there was no longer
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| pressure and to knock down the amount of
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| | any use for it. The enormous
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| water that was flowing through all of the
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| | eye-catching spiral staircase that went
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| main water pipes in Chicago. The tower
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| | all the way around the sandpipe was left
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| was built out of "Joliet" limestone, that
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| | alone. The spiral staircase is still
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| was made into blocks, from a rock quarry
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| | there, intact, today. The use of the
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| in Illinois. This was probably the best
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| | staircase these days is to reach the new
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| idea someone had back then, because
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| | tower that was built called the "Cupola
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| history tells of a great fire that broke
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| | Tower".Today the official use of the
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| out in Chicago in 1871 and leveled almost
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| | tower is as the city's photography
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| all of the buildings except for this
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| | gallery and the pumping station built
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| tower. The day after the fire, people
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| | below it serves as the Chicago's main
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| used this Water Tower as a guide to look
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| | water works supply. A Visitors' welcome
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| through all the ash and ruins for items
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| | center is also built near it so people
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| that had belonged to them.The tower then
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| | may read up on how the tower was first
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| became a city monument because of the
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| | built, and the purposes that it served
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| city's water works engineers' spirit and
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| | throughout the years. In 2003 the
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| drive to help the people who had lost
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| | Chicago Pumping Station became the home
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| nearly everything they had owned.The
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| | of the Lookingglass Theater.
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| enormous tower is actually constructed in
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