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By Andrew Ruppenstein, August 28, 2021
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1 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, The Loop District — Sauganash Hotel - Chicago - 1831
The Sauganash Hotel was built in 1831 on what is now the south east corner of Lake Street and Wacker Drive. It was Chicago's first hotel and it soon became the social center of town. In 1833, prominent local citizens met in the Sauganash . . . Map (db m183335) HM
2 Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, The Loop District — Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam — Chicago Landmark
On this site stood the Sauganash Hotel, built in 1831 by pioneer Mark Beaubien, which was location of the frontier town’s first village board election in 1833. The Wigwam, an assembly hall built in 1860 (destroyed c. 1867) on the site of the hotel, . . . Map (db m47725) HM
 
 
  
  
  
 
 
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