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A railway station?

Not a railway station, a sports arena, convention center, and exhibition hall.

This is the second building with that name, and was located on Wabash Avenue, between 14th and 16th Streets until it was demolished in the 1980's. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Coliseum

The 1912 Progressive Party ("Bull Moose") Convention was held at this same venue in August. It nominated former President Teddy Roosevelt for President and Governor Hiram Johnson of California for Vice President. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, won the election in November.

The Google Maps marker for the Coliseum is incorrect. It shows the Coliseum as between 16th and 18th Streets, but it was actually on the east side of Wabash between 14th and 16th Streets (per the Wikipedia article). A Buddhist center called Soka Gakka International and its parking lots are now on the site. Coliseum Park (which commemorates the Coliseum) is located acros the street on the southwest corner of 14th Place and Wabash.

1912 Republican National Convention was held at held at Chicago Coliseum Chicago, Cook County, Illinois June 18 to 22, 1912. politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1912/index.html

It strikes me that this image has a ton of inappropriate tags attached to it, especially "1968 Democratic Convention Protests" and a slew of sports teams.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called RNC in St Paul, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

This kind of history is such a true beauty of photography. I love these images.

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I saw this Spectacular Photo in:
Chicagoland Architecture, Engineering and Art!
(Open Join!)

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