Ask Geoffrey: Who’s Holding Up This Southeast Side Building?
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Geoffrey Baer does some heavy lifting on a South Side building.
The 7-foot-tall stone man has been shouldering a heavy burden on the corner of a building in Chicago’s industrial Southeast Side since around 1915. Geoffrey Baer has details in this week's edition of "Ask Geoffrey."
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Ask Geoffrey: Who’s Holding Up This Southeast Side Building?
Clip: 5/3/2017 | 6m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
The 7-foot-tall stone man has been shouldering a heavy burden on the corner of a building in Chicago’s industrial Southeast Side since around 1915. Geoffrey Baer has details in this week's edition of "Ask Geoffrey."
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