Museum
Chicago Fed Money Museum
Bank lobby cube stacked with a million dollars in cash, beside a working vault once among the largest ever built.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Chicago Fed Money Museum starts with the million-dollar cube of one-dollar bills in the lobby, and a 2025 visitor who decided to verify that label by counting every strapped bundle in a photograph himself. It also traces a widely repeated online account of how a contractor's miscalculation may explain the display's odd dimensions. Look up from the cube toward the vault that opened in 1922, once among the largest ever built.
This audio guide was created using AI.