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The Loop

CTL-E-1676 · Neighborhood · community area · unspecified

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Chicago community area and central business district; includes 220 S Michigan Ave (Symphony Center) and 180 N LaSalle St (CSCI office).

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RELP39 new supporting entity; created to ground located_in edges for CTL-E-0343 and CTL-E-0462.

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Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago's main Negro business street, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
Shoeshine, 47th Street, Chicago's main Negro business street, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Rosskam, Edwin, 1903-1985, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress
Where the Negro and white sections on the South Side meet, the white and Negro children sometimes play together, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
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