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Aerial View of Southwest Chicago, 1955
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The photograph taken in 1955 of a square-mile section of Chicago (Cicero Avenue on the west, Pulaski Street on the east, 79th Street on the north, and 87th Street on the south) shows the beginnings of development. A curvilinear layout empties into Scottsdale Shopping Center, still under construction at the time. A
Tribune
article from May 18, 1953, announced that the future shopping center would "be an integral part" of the Raymond T. Lutgert Construction Company's 120-acre development.
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