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Looking north on Clark from Monroe, 1889, Chicago.

The building on the left with all the flags is Kohl and Middleton’s Dime Museum, a place for vaudeville acts, curios, freaks and a place where a little known magician from New York named “Houdin” (later Houdini) would get his start…

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