Please sir, may I have another?

So I walked to the Oliver Typewriter building at 159 N. Dearborn. It's a completely quiet building, you would never notice it, across from the Goodman Theater. I used to work at The Goodman and looked at this building all the time.

Little would you know, written in the building 26 times is the name of the company, Oliver Typewriters. It's very cool and very subtle. Just one of those amazing things you would never notice. So many things that we never really see.

Anyhoo, I've been reading the City of the Century, which is basically a history of Chicago starting from Marquette and Joliet up until the Columbian Exposition in 1893. Right now I'm reading about how nature matched up perfectly with man's forward movement to create this big beautiful city. How canals to railways to grain saved this city from uncertain boggy death. We were a city of movers, we didn't create much, we imported and exported. We carried grain halfway across the country, figured out how to store it, move it, and sell it. The "futures" market started in this city when we started to sell grain that hadn't even grown yet. We opened the stock exchange for grain and meat. And we all know what's coming, we started to transport meat all around the country and had one of the biggest butchering businesses ever in existence.

And almost all of this is thanks to Ogden, our first mayor. He's the one that pushed for the railroads and put up his own money to do it. He's the one that started to fix the streets and the buildings and most importantly, he is the one (despite later important advocates) that kept our lakefront free and clear.

So I know he's got a street named after him and Ogden slip, the pier where Dick's Last Resort is (I'm sure Ogden would have loved that) and that crazy little park by the AMC movie theaters with the clock center in it...but what else? What else have we for Mayor Ogden?