Landmark
Logan Square
Public square anchoring a landmark boulevard, marked by a soaring marble column crowned with a bronze eagle.
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Location
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About this audio guide
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.
This audio guide was created using AI.