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"The 'sky-scrapers' of Chicago outrival anything of their kind in the world," said the Chicago Inter-Ocean newspaper in 1888-the first print usage of "skyscraper" to refer to buildings at a time when tall Chicago edifices included the 130-foot Montauk.

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