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Show SECOND LARGEST CITY 1NC0UNTRY Chicago, Dec. 2S. Work cn what Is to be the largest office building in Chicago, and the second largest in the United States, was begun yesterday ot Fifth avenue and Jackson boulevard. The building will be 200 feet square and 21 stories high. Double shifts of men will require 15 months in which I lo run the walls up to the limit of 200 feet now permitted by the city or- Idlnances. Almost without, exception, the , fcorea of fire lnsuranco and casualty companies, insurance publications and all the business associated with underwriting un-derwriting that now are scattered along La Salle street, hae prepared to move Into the new building as soon as it Is completed |