Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . THEATERS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS. 6iMusical Entertainments. Several musical societies in Chicago, among others the ApolloClub, have annual, or more frequent, concerts, which are noticea- ble events. The columns of the daily newspapers, as a rule, willgive ample notification of those open to the public. A seriesof summer concerts in the First Regimental Armory (MichiganAvenue and Sixteenth Street) have been very popular, and willprobably be repeated. Lectures and Instructive Exiiibition
Rand, McNally & co.'s handy guide to Chicago, and World's Columbian exposition ..What to see and how to see it . THEATERS AND OTHER AMUSEMENTS. 6iMusical Entertainments. Several musical societies in Chicago, among others the ApolloClub, have annual, or more frequent, concerts, which are noticea- ble events. The columns of the daily newspapers, as a rule, willgive ample notification of those open to the public. A seriesof summer concerts in the First Regimental Armory (MichiganAvenue and Sixteenth Street) have been very popular, and willprobably be repeated. Lectures and Instructive Exiiibitions. Lectures on various topical or national questions are fre-quently given during the winter months in or otherhalls. Full notification is always to be found in the columns ofthe local press. Exhibitions.—Certain instructive exhibitions are alwaysvisible. Among these are the Eden Musee (wax-works, curios,etc.), 227 Wabash Avenue; the Battle of Gettysburg, and NiagaraPanorama, on the same avenue, near Hubbard Court, and theCyclorama of the Chicago Fire, at Michigan Avenue and Libby Prison, Wabash Avenue, between Fourteenth and Sixteenth Streets. Museums, Prison Museum, Wabash Avenue and FifteenthStreet—the palace prison of the South—built in 1845, ofimported brick, and used as a tobacco warehouse; taken by theConfederates for a prison in 1861, and during the war more than12,000 Union soldiers were confined in it, is well worth a by Chicago capitalists in 18 89 and removed to this city, 62 HANDY GUIDE TO CHICAGO. and opened as a National War Museum, filled with many thou-sands of important and valuable relics of the late civil Antonio Moros portrait of Columbus, now on exhiJMtion atthis museum, will be one of the features of the art exhibit of theWorlds Columbian Exposition. Admission, 50 cents. John Browns Fort, the Harpers Ferry (Virginia) enginehouse, purchased and removed to this city, is filled with relics
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