re: #530 jamesfirecat

A Chicago liberal? Sounds like exactly the kind of dame he would be worried about.

She was put up in 1918, to mark the 25th anniversary of the Grand Columbian Exposition of 1893. The mayor in 1918 was Carter Harrison II, and his father (the original Carter Harrison) had been mayor of Chicago for most of 1893, before being assassinated by a lunatic shortly before the fair closed).