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The attribution of this statue to Alvin Meyer is incorrect. This statue, and its accompanying twin, were part of the previous Chicago Board of Trade building, built in 1885, when Alvin Meyer was minus 7 years old.
According to wikipedia, "In a pedestrian plaza immediately east of the (new) building stand two granite figures of Industry and Agriculture, both of them about 12 feet tall. These two had been incorporated into the 1885 Board of Trade Building by architect William W. Boyington, which was torn down in 1929. They were "discovered" in the grass of a forest preserve in 1978 near Glen Elyn Illinois, on land that had been acquired from the estate of Arthur W. Cutten, a big-time grain trader and stock speculator. They were re-dedicated here in 2005."
