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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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Steger, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...center. In 1930 a macaroni factory started in one of the old buildings, and several years later...
...and serving on bank boards. In 1910 the Steger Building was completed at the corner of Jackson and...
...Great Depression . However, the remarkable collection of buildings continued to be a key employment...
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West Ridge, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
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) ...transportation facilities in the area before 1930 limited the demand for large multiunit buildings....
...from about 7,500 in 1920 to almost 40,000 by 1930 and local residents looked to their own community...
...residential structures in the neighborhood. Apartment buildings also appeared, but relatively poor...
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Irving Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...and Russians . Population peaked at 66,783 in 1930, and commercial interests sprang up along the...
...1980s the Chicago Landmark Commission named 43 other buildings as potential landmarks. Irving Park's...
...are tiedto preservation of its historic houses. Building finehouses was the conceptthat businessman...
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Cook County Hospital, John Raffensperger(
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) ...of 1849 and 1854. Rush Medical School used the building at 18th and Arnold Streets as a teaching...
...County Hospital” opened in 1866 in the same building, a three-story brick and limestone structure...
...The physical plant deteriorated and the building became infested with rats and roaches. As city...
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Edgewater, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...encouraged the erection of apartment buildings, a development Cochran had not intended....
...This strip of “common corridor” buildings and residential hotels , concentrated between Winthrop and...
...housing crisis of the 1940s, these apartment buildings were subdivided into smaller units. The area...
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Untouchables, David E. Ruth(
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) ...publicly denounced a large bribe offer early in 1930, a Chicago Tribune reporter gave the group its...
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Northwestern University, Patrick M. Quinn(
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) ...classes in a newly built three-story wooden building located on the northwest corner of Hinman and...
...women students and opened its first permanent building, University Hall, which still stands as a...
...campus on Chicago Avenue at Lake Michigan in buildings designed by James Gamble Rogers, who also...
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Sports, High-School, Robert Pruter(
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) ...and-field meets (1902–1933), tennis tournaments (1895–1932), and basketball tournaments (1917–1930)....
...Northwestern sponsored swim meets (1914–1930) and indoor...
...track (1910–1930). In 1909, the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) took over the state...
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East Chicago, IN, Derek Vaillant(
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) ...labor force, lifting the population to 54,784 by 1930. A rivalry developed between Indiana Harbor,...
...of “blind tigers” serving bootleg liquor. In 1930, federal investigators indicted East Chicago mayor...
...8 Greek Orthodox, and 2 Jewish . After 1930, city growth slowed with only nominal increases,...
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Washington Heights, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...Community Area grew to nearly 18,000 people by 1930. Brick bungalows constructed from 1920 to 1950...
...to Racine. In 1869, the Blue Island Land and Building Company purchased and subdivided 1,500 acres...
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