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State Bank Of Chicago 40th Anniversary Medal

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Another interesting and enough rare medal.
Bronze, 1919.
W. and H. Co.
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But I'm more interested in the Chicago skyline of 1919.
Am I right in thinking that what I highlighted is the unfinished Metropolitan Tower or the building that came before it?
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After all, the Metropolitan Tower was built in 1922-1924. So this The Stratford Hotel?
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Am I right in thinking that what I highlighted is the unfinished Metropolitan Tower or the building that came before it?
For someone born in the area, you would think I would be good at lining it up and knowing what is what. The images are from different angles, so it is tricky, but from what I can tell, you may be correct since it was completed in 1924.
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So this The Stratford Hotel?
It was built in 1923. It is the Belden-Stratford now and looks a lot different today.
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I used this information...

Chicago Tribune, November 30, 1922.
Final signatures were affixed last night to a contract for the sale of the southwest corner of Michigan and Jackson boulevards by the Levy Mayer estate and Edwin F. Meyer, for approximately $4,50,000, to S. W. Straus & Co., Chicago and New York bankers.
On this site, instead of the twenty-one story Stratford office building planned by the late Levy Mayer to supplant the old Stratford hotel, recently wrecked (May 1), Straus & Co. intend to erect an $8,000,000 office building, which may climb to 500, or possible 600 feet, if the proposed setback building height ordinance is passed.

That is, the "old Stratford hotel" was wrecked on May 1, 1922, and in 1919 it stood in place.
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Yes, that is pretty much how it lined up for me. I had to "flatten" it in my head.
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