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| | Palmer House, Chicago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The third of the four Palmer Houses (today's Palmer House, also located along Monroe Street between State and Wabash, was built in the twenties) was, with the Grand Pacific and the Sherman House, one of the fanciest hotels in post-fire Chicago. |
 | | The floor of the Palmer House barber shop was tiled with silver dollars, and its service staff consisted largely of members of Chicago's small fl community, which comprised a little more than one percent of the population of the city. |
 | | Rudyard Kipling, who described Chicago as "inhabited by savages," was equally scornful of this showplace: "They told me to go to the Palmer House, which is a gilded and mirrored rabbit-warren, and there I found a huge hall of tessellated marble, crammed with people talking about money and spitting about everywhere. |
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