Aquarium
Shedd Aquarium
1200 S DuSable Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60605, USA
Octagonal marble hall on Lake Michigan holding one of the world's oldest saltwater collections, its first seawater hauled inland by train.
This guide to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago tells the story of the Nautilus, a specially built 1929 railroad car that carried live seawater from the coasts to Lake Michigan so a saltwater aquarium could open inland. A six-man crew lived aboard for days at a stretch, collecting fish and water in Florida, Maine and California. Twenty tank cars once rolled between Key West and Chicago to fill this building before it ever opened its doors.
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