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Swedes, Anita Olson Gustafson(
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) ...decades, reaching 816 people in 1860 and 6,154 in 1870, it represented the largest single cluster of...
...Swedes to permanently emigrate between 1845 and 1930, attracted by available agricultural land and...
...1880; mass migration and dispersal from 1880 to 1930; maturation and decline between 1930 and 1960;...
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Hyde Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...Commission, which was charged with monitoring building code violations and local crime. By the late...
...of hundreds of residential and commercial buildings in Hyde Park and Woodlawn and the development of...
...Park in the middle of 1893. After a significant building slump immediately following the exposition,...
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Subsidized Housing, Devereux Bowly, Jr.(
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) ...to Stateway Gardens, 1959, showing the kind of buildings razed to make way for high-rise housing....
...of Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) high-rise buildings. Yet before the creation of the CHA in 1937,...
...Side. This 1951 photograph shows several of the buildings and the well-maintained public spaces....
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Kitchenettes, Wendy Plotkin(
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) ...and amenities. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks eloquently evoked the ambiance of these buildings in “...
...kitchenette building,” published in her first, award-winning collection, A Street in Bronzeville (...
...were converted to more intensive use. Brick buildings with medium and large apartments rented on a...
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Dunning, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...a separate building for the insane asylum in 1870. The construction of two more buildings in the...
...in shambles and in the 1970s nearly half the buildings were razed. In that year, the Chicago-Read...
...College expanded with futuristic-style buildings and a learning resource center at Narragansett and...
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Condominiums and Cooperatives, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...of the city's wholesale furniture trade, the building was converted to residential condominiums and...
...have a share in a corporation that owns the building. Members are entitled to occupy one unit and...
...subsidies, encouraged a new wave of cooperative building in Chicago. A variety of cooperatives can...
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Printer's Row, Erik Gellman(
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) ...examples of the First Chicago School of Architecture , including the Duplicator Building (1886) and...
...the Pontiac Building (1891). In the late 1970s...
...to convert printing centers such as the Donohue Building into loft-style apartments, and Dearborn...
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Housing Reform, Gail Radford(
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) ...conditions that existed in Chicago, in hopes of building momentum for change. Settlement workers...
...there was little or no indoor plumbing in many buildings occupied by several families. Those parts...
...units in rowhouses and low-rise apartment buildings. These were the Jane Addams Houses, the Julia C....
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Art Institute of Chicago, Diane Dillon(
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) ...offered classes and staged regular receptions and exhibitions. In 1870 the organization moved...
...into its own building on Adams Street, adding a lecture series to...
...its program. After the building was destroyed in the fire of 1871 , the academy was plagued by...
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Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...for males in 1866. Its first substantial building was at Dearborn and Schiller. After two years,...
...at North Avenue and even built a two-story building there, but it perished in the fire of 1871 ....
...the medicine, and the city paid for the building rental. However, it soon became evident that the...
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Palmer House, Anne Moore(
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) ...Palmer House, with 225 rooms, opened in September 1870. Its furnishings alone cost $100,000, or half...
...it was alternately mocked and praised. That building—touted as the nation's only fireproof hotel—...
...House was under construction nearby, but both buildings were destroyed by the Fire of 1871 . Palmer...
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Adler Planetarium, Bruce Stephenson(
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) ...new glass-enclosed Sky Pavilion opened, wrapped around the Lake Michigan side of the historic 1930...
...was designed by Ernst Grunsfeld and opened in 1930 on a small island connected to the shore by a...
...Grunsfeld building. The expanded and completely renovated facilities now house the original Zeiss...
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Gary, IN, Raymond A. Mohl(
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) ...population grew to about 55,000 in 1920 and over 100,000 in 1930. Immigrants and their American-...
...children made up 45 percent of the population in 1930, while blacks constituted almost 18 percent....
...Steel to fill unskilled jobs in the mills. By 1930, over 9,000 Mexicans resided in Gary and nearby...
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East Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...included the expansion of Bethany Hospital, the building of Ike Sims Village for senior citizens,...
...the park for sale, developers provided neither buildings nor infrastructure. Intense trading lasted...
...after 1893. Two-flats and small apartment buildings were erected to house the population working in...
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La Grange, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...that had risen from 6,525 in 1920 to 10,103 in 1930. Unable to find open and affordable land in...
...upper-class Chicagoans' “suburban fever. ” In 1870, Cossitt purchased a 600-acre tract of farmland...
...of elm trees , restricting the sale of liquor, building large singlefamily houses, setting aside...
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Housing for the Elderly, N. Sue Weiler(
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) ...from 16.7 percent of the poorhouse residents in 1870 to 61 percent by 1908. The Old Ladies' Home,...
...built the Home for Aged Couples, a two-story building for married residents. Nevertheless, public...
...occupied by tenants over 65. The first high-rise building designed especially for elderly residents,...
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House Moving, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...asked that the city council not permit more than one building to stand in the streets of any block...
...at the same time, or permit any one building to stand in the streets for more than three days. In...
...early streets . Only a very specific kind of building was easily moved. Shanties, log cabins, and...
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Street Grades, Raising, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...from tourists, was the raising of existing buildings to the higher grades. Low, flat, and on a clay...
...The second was part of the larger project of building the sewer system, designed by engineer Ellis...
...street raisings were public projects, raising buildings to the higher grade was left to individual...
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Judith Russi Kirshner(
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) ...private resources to purchase and renovate a building on Ontario Street. Implicit in the MCA's...
...to increase awareness of contemporary art. Building on the remarkable exhibitions in its early...
...history—the first U.S. wrapping of a public building by Christo in 1969, a Robert Irwin exhibition...
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Near South Side, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...conversions in nearby Printers Row has spread to buildings on Wabash, Michigan, and Indiana Avenues,...
...brought rapid transit , and hotels and apartment buildings were built for the 1893 World's Columbian...
...hall, and in 1960 the first McCormick Place building opened on a controversial lakefront site at...
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