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Chicago’s Lost, Altered and Disfigured Public Art, #2

Posted on February 18, 2019March 16, 2019 by Edmund McDevitt
Chicago’s Lost, Altered and Disfigured Public Art, #2

As we said in our first entry on this topic, “When we start telling the stories of our public art, the conversation inevitably turns to art that is gone. Where did it go? Why?” The list of missing art is long and, at least to this observer, maddening. Herewith are Continue Reading

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