Relic from the Great Chicago Fire (Hardware Store Remnant)

Name: Relic from the Great Chicago Fire (Hardware Store Remnant)
Address: Clark Street & North Avenue (east wall of Chicago History Museum), Chicago, IL 60614, Chicago, IL

Hidden in the hedges along the semi-circular east plaza of the Chicago History Museum lurks a lump of melted metal—hardware from a store consumed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; one of the city's m