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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Antecedents and Inspirations, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...1904 that bemoaned Chicago's decline between 1870 and 1900 from second to thirty-second place among...
...creating dramatic focal points for public buildings. The Contemporary Context As useful as it may be...
...of municipal art, expressed in magnificent parks, buildings, boulevards, and public gathering places...
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Residential Hotels, Paul Groth(
Authored Entry
) ...the week or month instead of by the night. Until 1930, people with comfortable incomes might move to...
...salesmen, or in journeymen construction building trades . Such work could not be counted on for...
...the only available homes were in hotel buildings disparagingly called “cheap lodging houses. ”...
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Park Ridge, IL, John R. Schmidt(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1910, the population ballooned to 10,417 in 1930. Anticipating annexation pressure from Chicago,...
...Penny arranged to have the trains stop by building his own station. The new community that grew up...
...discouraged. Park Ridge experienced a major building boom during the 1910s and '20s. City dwellers...
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Julius Rosenwald: Chicago Businessman and Philanthropist, Peter M. Ascoli(
Authored Entry
) ...over five thousand primary and secondary schools for blacks in the South between 1913 and 1930. His...
...most lasting act of philanthropy was the building of the Museum of Science and Industry, which he...
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Gambians, Tracy Steffes(
Authored Entry
) ...a small number remained in Chicago and began building a community. A steady flow of Gambian student...
...to members in times of birth, death, and illness. Building off the base of this social network, the...
...to promote mutual assistance and community building. The organization holds monthly meetings and...
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Grant Park, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...past several decades. i3516 Interstate Exposition Building on Michigan Avenue, 1880s. Photographer:...
...later adopted a plan for the park which included a civic center and other buildings. Ward sued the...
...city again, and only the new Art Institute building was constructed in 1893. The Chicago South Park...
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Catholic School System, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...older institutions such as Loyola (1870) and DePaul (1898) soon benefited from returning veterans,...
...enrollment in Chicago tripled between 1900 and 1930, from 49,638 to 145,116. Despite the decrease in...
...Xavier (1912), Barat (1918), Rosary (1922), and Mundelein (1930) continued to struggle for survival,...
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The Loop, Gerald A. Danzer(
Authored Entry
) ...large commercial emporium, and other mercantile buildings along State Street. This reorientation of...
...destroyed the central part of the city. The fire destroyed most residential buildings, as well as...
...historic church and school buildings, in the heart of the city. The rise of the skyscraper in the...
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Church Architecture, George A. Lane, S.J.(
Authored Entry
) ...Street, by Charles L. Wallace; St. Gertrude (1930–31), on Glenwood at Granville in Rogers Park, by...
...a simple, inexpensive, and efficient wooden building technique—in 1833, when Augustine Deodat Taylor...
...see a skyline of steeples, perched atop buildings designed expressly for the purpose of Christian...
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Louis Henri Sullivan and the Chicago School, David Garrard Lowe(
Authored Entry
) ...in Chicago in 1893, Sullivan's Transportation Building, with its shimmering gold-leafed entrance,...
...would, though, design a small number of superb buildings, including the Schlesinger & Mayer Store in...
...in 1886 to the commission for the Auditorium Building . While the structure's limestone and granite...
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