The Berlin Wall
A portion of the Berlin Wall is inside the Western Avenue CTA station in Chicago. Dedicated to the citizens of Chicago for helping "secure the freedom" of Berlin. The wall was transported to the city via Luftansa Airlines. The Lincoln-Square Neighborhood has been historically German.
Read more about this topic: Western (CTA Brown Line Station)
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“Won’t you play a simple melody
Like my mother sang to me—
One with good old fashioned harmony.
Play a simple melody.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)
“Me in my vow’d
Picture the sacred wall declares t’have hung
My dank and dropping weeds
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—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8)