Chicago Railroad Center of the World, (painting).

Chicago Railroad Center of the World, (painting).

Tracy, Elizabeth, b. 1911, painter.

Chicago Railroad Center of the World, (painting).

Architecture exterior -- Civic -- Railroad Station

Downers Grove Post Office, 920 Curtis Avenue, Downers Grove, Illinois

Created under the New Deal federal art project originally known as the Treasury Department's Section of Painting and Sculpture, later known as the the Section of Fine Arts, which commissioned artworks for public buildings through competitions.

Thompson, Mary Emma, "A Guide to Depression Era Art in Illinois Post Offices," Westfield, IL: Mary Emma Thompson, 1995, rev. 2005, pg. 18.

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