Logan Square

This guide to the Logan Square monument traces how a Chicago lumber baron's death left a million-dollar trust meant only for public statues, and how the Art Institute's trustees spent part of it on this seventy-foot marble column. You'll hear about architect Henry Bacon, fresh off designing the Lincoln Memorial, and about the real-estate boom that filled this once-empty traffic circle after the elevated line arrived in the 1890s. Stand at the column's base and look up at the bronze eagle overhead while you listen.