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Statue of Benjamin Franklin (Chicago)

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Coordinates:41°54′49.7″N87°37′51.9″W / 41.913806°N 87.631083°W /41.913806; -87.631083

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Statue in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Statue of Benjamin Franklin
The statue in October 2013

Subject	Benjamin Franklin
Location	Chicago,Illinois, U.S.
Coordinates	41°54′49.7″N87°37′51.9″W / 41.913806°N 87.631083°W /41.913806; -87.631083

A statue ofBenjamin Franklin, known as theBenjamin Franklin Monument, is installed inChicago'sLincoln Park, in theU.S. state ofIllinois.^[1] Designed byRichard Henry Park, the work was created in 1895, installed in 1896, and relocated in 1966.^[2]^[3]

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^"Benjamin Franklin - Chicago Monuments Project".chicagomonuments.org.Archived from the original on June 5, 2023. RetrievedAugust 11, 2023.
^"Benjamin Franklin Monument".Chicago Park District.Archived from the original on March 23, 2023. RetrievedAugust 11, 2023.
^"Ben Franklin in Bronze".Chicago Chronicle. June 7, 1896. p. 4. RetrievedAugust 14, 2023 – via Newspapers.com.

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Writings	The Papers of Benjamin Franklin Founders Online Silence Dogood letters (1722) A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain (1725) The Busy-Body columns (1729) The Pennsylvania Gazette (1729–1790) Early American publishers and printers Poor Richard's Almanack (1732–1758) The Drinker's Dictionary (1737) "Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress" (1745) "The Speech of Polly Baker" (1747) Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc. (1751) Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751) Birch letters (1755) The Way to Wealth (1758) Pennsylvania Chronicle (1767) Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One (1773) Proposed alliance with the Iroquois (1775) A Letter to a Royal Academy (1781) Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America (1784) "The Morals of Chess" (1786) An Address to the Public (1789) A Plan for Improving the Condition of the Free Blacks (1789) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (1771–1790, pub. 1791) Bagatelles and Satires (pub. 1845) Franklin as a journalist Franklin's phonetic alphabet
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