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Albany Park Terra Cotta

Façade Detail, Capitol Motor Sales Co

The Albany Park in Chicago today stands as the city’s most diverse neighborhood. And housing the varied ethnic shops and restaurants along Lawrence Ave are a number of commercial buildings constructed in the 1920s and 1930. And what makes these

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