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In late 1890, Daniel Burnham, the eminent architect charged with turning a boggy square mile of Chicago into a world-dazzling showpiece, assembled an all-star team of designers and gave them one ...

An independent movie, or indie film, is defined as a movie produced and distributed outside the major film studio system.

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