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A Chicago building has long been called the world’s 'first skyscraper,' but was it?

Can you imagine a time before skyscrapers towered over the world's great cities, shading the streets and sidewalks below? That was the reality until America entered a new architectural era in the late ...
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The first skyscraper in America and why it shocked the public

In the mid-1880s, Chicago pulled off something nobody else had tried before by building a tall, metal-framed office tower called the Home Insurance Building. We’d call that a skyscraper today. It didn ...
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A Chicago building has long been called the world’s ‘first skyscraper,’ but was it?

(NEXSTAR) – Can you imagine a time before skyscrapers towered over the world’s great cities, shading the streets and sidewalks below? That was the reality until America entered a new architectural era ...