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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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Avalon Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...in nearby steel mills and industrial plants. By 1930 more than 10,000 people resided in Avalon Park,...
...Avalon Park along both class and racial lines. By 1930, 19 percent of the community's residents were...
...characterized by successive waves of home building and population growth, although its population...
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Oakland, Claudette Tolson(
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) ...The city of Chicago demolished dilapidated buildings, and vacant lots were left scattered throughout...
...Organization (KOCO) rehabilitated several buildings in the community and successfully pressured the...
...which helped the further development of single-family houses, townhouses, and rehabbed buildings....
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Universities and Their Cities, Steven J. Diner and Harold S. Wechsler(
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) ...Plainfield College (1861; moved to Naperville in 1870 and renamed North Central College in 1926);...
...Barat (1858; merged with DePaul, 2001), St. Ignatius (1870; renamed Loyola University , 1909), St....
...renamed DePaul University , 1907), and Mundelein (1930; merged with Loyola, 1991). New graduate,...
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Publishing and Media, Religious, R. Jonathan Moore(
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) ...Presbyterians united behind the Interior in 1870. The first Quaker paper in the West, the Herald of...
...Swedish Lutherans each had their own papers by 1870, as did Swedish and Norwegian Methodists. Not...
...published the Religio- Philosophical Journal (1868–1870) and News from the Spirit World (1865–1895)....
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Rogers Park, Patricia Mooney-Melvin(
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) ...College, now a part of Loyola, opened in 1930. Run by the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin...
...suburban qualities faded. Large apartment building construction was most intense north of Howard...
...area north of Howard Street. Deteriorating buildings brought lower rents and a more transient and...
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West Lawn, Douglas Knox(
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) ...street was settled with single-family houses by 1930, when the census reported 8,919 people in West...
...mission in 1909, with a small church and school building. Four Protestant churches were established...
...and delinquent property taxes discouraged building. In the early 1940s, an observer standing on...
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Morgan Park, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...in Morgan Park to live on the periphery. Between 1930 and 1960, the community's population more than...
...country town. In 1869, the Blue Island Land and Building Company purchased property from the heirs...
...Island company donated land and helped finance buildings for Mt. Vernon Military Academy (1873), the...
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Charters, Municipal, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...established by a charter issued prior to 1870. In Cook County, Cicero, Glencoe, and Winnetka are...
...charters from the state legislature by 1870. In addition, Barrington , Palatine , Winnetka , and...
...the state's general town incorporation act. In 1870, Illinois wrote a new constitution, which halted...
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Austin, Judith A. Martin(
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) ...village to a dense urban neighborhood between 1870 and 1920. For the next 50 years this was a large...
...Assumption church. Austin had 130,000 residents by 1930. Dense housing development almost completely...
...1930s Greek migrants had arrived in south Austin, building their own landmark, the Byzantine-style...
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West Dundee, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...the elegant houses on Oregon Avenue. Restored buildings include structures reported to have provided...
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