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Your guide to 'Hamilton: The Exhibition' in Chicago: Will this big risk by the creators of the musical succeed?

CHICAGO - Can the famously smart and creative minds at Hamilton Inc. pull off their biggest gamble yet?

With the acclaimed visual designer David Korins spinning the artistic roulette wheel, the brain trust of the most successful Broadway musical in modern history have picked Chicago for their huge new wager on brand extension and title recognition.

Will the millions of "Hamilton" fans across America and the United Kingdom come in their droves, not to a hit Broadway musical, but to an interactive, experiential and immersive exhibition centered on the life and times of Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father, zealous promoter of the United States Constitution and the first Secretary of the Treasury?

And will they do so

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