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Stock Exchange Arch

This doorway is what is left of the building that killed the man who fought for it.

Collection: Chicago · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Chicago Stock Exchange arch at the Art Institute
Chicago Stock Exchange arch at the Art Institute · Paul R. Burley, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

A man named Tim Samuelson had arranged to meet a friend at a demolition site in April 1972. The friend never came. He was Richard Nickel, a photographer, forty-three years old. The site was the Chicago Stock Exchange, by Adler and Sullivan, and the arch in front of you was its main entrance. For twenty years Nickel had photographed Louis Sullivan's buildings as they came down. He picketed them by day and wrote angry letters at night.

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Visiting

Outdoors at Columbus Drive and Monroe Street, free to see at any time. The rebuilt Trading Room is inside the Art Institute of Chicago. Ask the museum whether it is open before you buy a ticket for it.

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