Included in that area are the U.S. Capitol, all of the House and Senate office buildings, the U.S. Supreme Court, the Library of Congress and part of the National Mall.

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Ever since it was all but razed to the ground by fire in 1871, Chicago has made every effort to use the opportunity to improve itself: one of the first buildings to be reconstructed was its public library.

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The state-of-the-art building will sit between two Victorian buildings, the B-listed Dunfermline Carnegie Library and a B-listed former bank.

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