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Bathers at the Chicago Beach Hotel, 1913
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Members of the Chicago Beach Hotel wore elaborate swimming costumes as they enjoyed their private beach in the first decades of the twentieth century. They maintained exclusive access to the city's South Side beach until 1915 when the Chicago City Council Finance Committee appropriated $82,000 for the construction of a free bathhouse on the city-owned three acres of land adjacent to the Chicago Beach Hotel.
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