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Great Chicago Fire (1871)
Spotlight on Santa Fe; recalling old Chicago
Spotlight on Santa Fe; recalling old Chicago

"Santa Fe" (Museum of New Mexico Press, $39.95) Santa Fe, N.M., founded in 1610, is unique among cities in the United States. No other city looks like Santa Fe. Here three dominant cultures — Indian, Hispanic and Anglo — have coexisted and blended together over the generations to create the Santa Fe we know today. It's the light. As anyone who has been to Santa Fe knows, it is the mysterious light that makes the city so special no matter what time of year. It's the way the sun's rays hit the sun-baked, dun-colored adobe buildings. It is the same light that captivated Georgia O'Keeffe and so many other artists who have settled there over the...