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Chicago, IL city

file photograph construction

Drilling a caisson near the southeast corner

Connected to Kingsbury Plaza in Chicago

2,272 × 1,704 px·2.89 MB·JPEG·294-297-364

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JPEG
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2,272 × 1,704 px
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3,033,224 bytes
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Daniel Kieckhefer
Medium
photograph
Category
construction
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Drilling a caisson near the southeast corner