Other than harvested grain, the McCormick reaper's greatest production was family relations and their mansions. The north side was crawling with them. Founder Cyrus's 1879 palace at 676 North Rush bit the dust in the 1950's; nephew L. Hamilton's 4-story Italian palazzo at 100 E. Ontario is now the two-story Lawry's Restaurant....

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