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OUR STORY

The building at 100 East Ontario Street has held many lives.

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Completed in 1889 as the private residence of Leander Hamilton McCormick, it was among the most storied addresses in Chicago. After McCormick's death, the Mansion became the Continental Casino in 1934. Three years later, restauranteur Fredrik A. Charmer transformed it into the Kungsholm Restaurant. In 1940, he opened the Grand Opera Puppet Theater in the Mansion's ballroom.‍

Lawry's Steakhouse called it home from 1974 to 2020.

Each chapter added something. The bones stayed.

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In 2026, architect David Rockwell reimagined the Mansion as a permanent home for magic. Not a stage. Not a spectacle. A place designed, from its foundation to its farthest room, for close moments of real astonishment.

The Hand & The Eye is that place.

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