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National Bank Notes > Illinois

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Chicago Heights, First NB, M5876
Fr. 490 $10 1882BB
Grade: VF/XF    

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Here is a beautiful 10 Brown Back with excellent pen signatures, great color and body, along with decent paper quality - a rarity. This is the best of the four 10 Brown Backs known. Incorporated as a city in 1837, Chicago is noted for many firsts , among them the first comprehensive city sewer plan (1856) and the world s first steel-skeleton skyscraper (1885). Several square miles of the city were ravaged by fire in 1871, leading to a rebuild based in stone and steel rather than wood. Chicago was host to the World s Columbian Exposition in 1893, commonly held as the most influential World s Fair in history. It was also home to some of the world s most notorious gangsters in the early 20th century as well as the site of the first controlled nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago in 1942.

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