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News of castles, mansions, palaces and more… |
Michigan Avenue, south of 26th Street, was once called “Millionaires’ Row.” That’s when a million dollars was hard to get.
Now any utility infielder or personal injury lawyer has that much cash in walking-around money.
At the turn of the last century, the avenue was thick with mansions.
Time passed, the neighborhood declined, the mansions were carved up into rooming houses.
Then came
the bulldozers, then came urban renewal.