Water Works Pumping Station

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Built in 1869, the Pumping Station and Water Tower, its companion building across the street, were constructed in Gothic style with yellow limestone. It's this stone that saved them when the Great Fire roared through town in 1871. Today the building holds the Lookingglass Theatre Company and a small branch of the Chicago Public Library.

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