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New Yorkers and Chicagoans
have very different definitions of what constitutes an "old" building.
To a New Yorker, "old" can mean a building like the Conference House dating
from 1680-88, or other structures dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth
centuries. As residents of a much newer city, Chicagoans consider their
handful of buildings dating from the 1830's 40's and 50's to be "old".
Even these are extremely rare in Chicago due to the effects of the Great
Chicago Fire that destroyed much of the central city in 1871.
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