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The School and Art Institute of Chicago

ART IN THE WINDY CITY

 

The world-renowned Art Institute of Chicago is not only an art school offering undergraduate and graduate degrees to nearly 3,000 students, but is also a world-class museum containing more than 300,000 works of art. Its original building complex, constructed in 1879 from the charred rubble of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, moved to its present location on the “Magnificent Mile,” the famous strip of hotels and boutiques along Michigan Avenue. Its collection contains masterpieces ranging from American and European paintings to 15th century textiles, ...

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