Where to See Frank Lloyd Wright’s Genius Unfold

In 1833, when the outpost called Chicago was incorporated, only 350 pioneers called the mosquito-plagued bog home. Soon, canals, railroads, factories, banks, pigs, and cattle made for a boom. In a few short years, around 300,000 hustled and bustled there. And, goodness, though the 1871 Great Fire gutted most of the city, only a bit more than 20 years later, the reborn, freshly gilded metropolis hosted the 1893 World’s Fair. Who knows whether Mrs. O’Leary’s cow called Sizzle or a soused Peg Leg Sullivan knocked over that lantern that started the 1871 blaze? Only kidding about the cow’s name, but there was indeed a Peg Leg Sullivan at whom most fingers pointed when it came to lantern-tipping.