Practice of simple, compound, complex sentences

simple sentence - Burnham still wanted that water.(p176, 5paragraph)

Compound sentence 

     - Dedication Day was only a month away, and Harry Codman was ill, incapacitated by the same 

       stomach problem that had struck him during the summer.(p179, 6 paragraph, 6 line)

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Complex sentence

       - After a brief standoff, McElroy and the pipelayers went back to Chicago.(p176, 4 paragraph.)

       - When Arnold took the photograph, hundreds of men were at work on the building, but its

          scale was so great that none of the men was immediately visible.(p177, 4 paragraph, 6line)

       - Yet she and her husband made no effort to move from the building, nor did they go to the 

         police.(p189, 5paragraph, 2 line)

Statue of the Republic in Jackson Park

The Last Cossing 

 Statue of the Republic, after the Peristyle fire, 1894.

According the image of the episode,  it was released during the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Nowdays, the buildings which are around the statues in the picture has disappeared, and the lake also was filled. I haven’t started to read yet, but I was expected the story of this episode that explaining how the statue of republic was established there and what this statue meant. In addition, I also am curious why the happen

Reference 

 Information of Statue of the Republic : http://www.jacksonparkadvisorycouncil.org/statue-of-the-republic.html

The link of the location : https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=statue+of+the+republic+jackson+park&fb=1&gl=us&hq=statue+of+the+republic+jackson+park&cid=0,0,7489499455714613843&ei=qUvjT4TFIqXa2QXwj4nYCw&sqi=2&ved=0CIIBEPwSMAQ