There's a wonderful little piece of Paris perched on Michigan Avenue, in Chicago, right next door to the Art Institute: A beautiful Hector Guimard Art Nouveau Metro castiron entranceway frames the stairs that descend to the Van Buren Street Station.
The City of Paris was selling them off for a brief while -- they were busy modernizing -- until some savvy official looked up from his pile of paperwork and said "Oh Sh*t!" and stopped that quick.
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