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Chicago Loop Synagogue
16 N. Clark St.
1957, Loebl, Schlossman & Bennett
This congregation began in a hotel room where travelers and businessmen could assemble a daily minyan. The building now serves that function in a ground-level chapel and an upper sanctuary. Reached by a ramp, the sanctuary is dominated by an eastern wall of Abraham Rattner’s stained glass, Let There Be Light.