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Ask Geoffrey

Ask Geoffrey: 12/15

Yasmin Rammohan | December 15, 2011, 9:00 am

After years in storage, a hand sculpture was recently installed in a new location. Geoffrey Baer tells us about the hands, and their connection to an important figure in Chicago history in Ask Geoffrey.

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