[1][2] The work was created by George Wade in 1893 and originally displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition.

[3] After the Fair, the sculpture was moved to downtown Chicago in front of the Women's Hall, where it sat until that building was torn down.

It was then re-erected in Lincoln Park, and moved to its current location when Lake Shore Drive was reconstructed in 1940.

It was finally replaced in 2010, using a mold cast from an identical sculpture in Portland, Maine.

[4] In addition to this statue and the one in Portland, identical versions were created for Detroit and London; the London version, in Victoria Embankment Gardens, was also stolen and later re-erected using the Portland statue as its guide.