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Louis Sullivan, detail of an oil painting by Frank A. Werner, 1919; in the collection of the Chicago Historical Society.
The Auditorium Building in Chicago, designed by the firm of Adler and Sullivan, contained a 3,982-seat auditorium for opera.1