Vintage Stiltwalkers a high-diving mule and other efforts to make State Street great again

Vintage Stiltwalkers a high-diving mule and other efforts to make State Street great again- By the early 1970s few people were doing anything ‘on state street, that great street,’ as Frank Sinatra once crooned. Chicago’s business and civic leaders decided the once thriving retail strip desperately needed resuscitation. They created “People Week” in 1973, a series of special events along State Street and in the many department stores that […]

Source: chicagotribune.com

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