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Edifice RexWhy Chicago is America's great architecture city.

By Jacob WeisbergPosted Sunday, April 4, 1999, at 3:30 AM ET

Tour screen shot This week, The Browser takes a walk around Chicago's Loop with two architectural historians in search of an answer to the question: Why are Chicago's tall buildings so much more distinguished than New York City's? Click here to begin the tour. Click here for the text-only version.

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Jacob Weisberg is chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group and author of The Bush Tragedy. Follow him at http://twitter.com/jacobwe.
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