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Chicago has long been considered the capital of American architecture. This city and its suburbs are world-famous for their Chicago School commercial buildings and Prairie School residences. From the rebuilding after the Great Fire of 1871 through the 1922 international competition for the Chicago Tribune tower, architects flocked to the city not only from across America, but also from Europe, to aid in the development of these schools. Figures such as Louis H. Sullivan, Holabird and Roche, William Le Baron Jenney, Burn-ham and Root, and Frank Lloyd Wright became household names in the history of Chicago's contribution to American archi-tecture. But less familiar names - among them, German émigrés Augustus Bauer, Otto Matz, and Peter Weber - also played a significant part in these developments.
Interchanges between Chicago and, par-ticularly, northern Europe ranged from the presence of several German architects in the city during the nineteenth century through the many Chicagoans who studied in Europe at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and returned home to make their city a "Paris on the Prairie."
