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100th Anniversary of the Great Gatsby: The Chicago Connection
This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” It was destined to be the definitive literary monument of the Roaring ’20s, a decade of f…
(Chicago Tribune historical photo) This week marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” It was destined to be the definitive literary monument of the Roaring ’20s, a decade of fortunes made and lost on Wall Street. Fitzgerald distilled real-life experiences into his characters Daisy Buchanan and Nick Carraway, chronicling scenes he’d witnessed while visiting Chicago’s North Shore and his love interest, Lake Forest debutant Ginevra King. (Hulton Archive/Getty)Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw built this home for Charles Garfield King in 1906 in Lake Forest, called Kingdom Come Farm, where he lived with his family, including his daughter, Ginevra, April 3, 2025.
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