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1500 ft

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Beacon of Progress

Jackson Park
Chicago IL United States
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Status:	cancelled
Construction Dates
Intended completion date	1900

Building Uses

- monument

- observation

- theatre

Structural Types

- tower

- statue

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Description
Architect: Désiré Despradelle

This was a vision for a monument to American technological and industrial can-do, to be built on the site of the Chicago World Fair.

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