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gdubs ◴[] No.45112240[source]
Time to raise it up again:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_Chicago

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ornornor ◴[] No.45112392[source]
> Consequently, the practice of putting the old multi-story, intact and furnished wooden buildings—sometimes entire rows of them en bloc—on rollers and moving them to the outskirts of town or to the suburbs was so common as to be considered nothing more than routine traffic.

Incredible!

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1. aredox ◴[] No.45114108[source]
Was that the inspiration for James Blish's Cities in Flight series?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight