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Chicago Harbor Light is an active automated lighthouse on the north breakwater protecting Chicago Harbor, east of Navy Pier and the Chicago River mouth. Built in 1893 during the World's Columbian Exposition, it briefly featured a prize-winning third-order Fresnel lens originally intended for New Point Loma Lighthouse in California. Its present form largely reflects a 1917 breakwater renovation and a 1919 move to its current site, when a fog signal room and boathouse were added. Long recognized as part of Chicago's maritime history, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and named a Chicago Landmark in 2003, while preservation efforts continue.
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