She turned up her collar to block the winter chill as she waited for Abby, who was meeting her for a day of shopping. Marsh had installed the giant clock just two years before and it had since become the meeting point for shoppers up and down State Street. She heard the rivet guns down the street where the new Carson Pirie Scott building was under construction. Marsh told her that Sullivan, the architect who had criticized the latest renovations to the Marshall Field & Company building, was designing a dry goods store with nothing but glass along the first floor. She couldn’t imagine it. But then again, she couldn’t have imagined skyscrapers like the Reliance Building or the Masonic Temple, either. She never could have predicted half the changes that had taken place in the past few years. There were over a million people in Chicago now and the city had stretched to accommodate them all with more el cars and cable cars that ran from the outskirts into the heart of the Loop.
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