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My dad sent me the link to this New York Times piece about John Paul Stevens, mainly because of this bit of trivia it contains:

Stevens was born on April 20, 1920, the youngest of four boys. His paternal grandfather, James W. Stevens, made a fortune as the founder of the Illinois Life Insurance company, and in 1927, his father, Ernest J. Stevens, built the Stevens Hotel in Chicago, now the Hilton Chicago, which he called "the largest and finest hotel in the world." Built for a staggering price of $30 million, the Stevens hotel included 3,000 guest rooms, a movie theater and an ice cream factory. As Charles Lane reported in a Washington Post article in 2005 about Stevens’s childhood, young Stevens and his brothers posed as models for the bronze sculptures by the grand stairway.

I was actually in this hotel a couple of months ago (the packet pickup for the Chicago Distance Classic was there) but I didn't take note of the sculptures -- and unfortunately I won't be able to make it back there this week, since we're in Wisconsin. When we do get back, I'll head over there with the (silly) intention of making some portraits of the sculptures in the style of Platon, the wide-angle specialist who did the incredible portraits for the piece.