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Antecedents and Inspirations, Carl Smith(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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.(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Gentrification, Larry Bennett(
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) ...family dwellings, two- and three-flat buildings, and coach houses. Since the 1970s gentrification...
...and River North, the conversion of industrial buildings to residential and commercial uses has been...
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Insurance, Beatrix Hoffman(
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) ...East Coast insurers. The landmark Standard Oil Building, currently Chicago's second tallest, in 2000...
...Chicago landmarks like the Home Insurance Building (1884–85, by architect William LeBaron Jenney),...
...D. H. Burnham & Co. 's Insurance Exchange Building (1912). Two of Chicago's best-known (and most-...
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Balloon Frame Construction, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...examining physical evidence. The oldest buildings that remain in metropolitan Chicago suggest that...
...intimately to the frame. Heated by stoves, the building had no need for a large, central fireplace....
...studs that ran continuously to the height of the building. The studs were notched to accommodate the...
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Kenilworth, IL, Jan Olive Nash(
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) ...the overall English theme of the village, Maher's buildings are strongly influenced by the English...
...Company's plan limited the number of building lots in the new village and used restrictive covenants...
...Kenilworth has the largest collection of buildings by George W. Maher, a contemporary of Frank Lloyd...
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Architecture: The Prairie School, H. Allen Brooks(
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) ...turned conservative and thereafter shunned building concepts that expressed an idea rather than...
...forms—ideas such as the relevance of a building to nature and the landscape, the visual expression...
...designs attracted commissions for a wide variety of buildings—not just houses but banks, churches,...
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Naperville, IL, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...to this easy rail connection to Chicago. In 1870, North Central College (then North Western College)...
...America. Stone quarries flourished, providing building materials for Chicago, especially after the...
...Naperville. Harold Moser led the residential building boom with his first subdivision in 1956. By...
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Classical Music, Mark Clague and J. Kimo Williams(
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) ...well as Ludwig, active in Chicago from 1909 to 1930. Piano makers have included Julius Bauer & Co....
...retail shop in 1864 and turned to instrument building in 1885. Organ builders have included Story &...
...Summer Night Concerts in the Exposition Building (1877–91) helped build an audience for symphonic...
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Environmental Politics, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...sector has been intimately involved in building cities in three important ways. First, frameworks of...
...elaborate public health , plumbing, and building codes , complete with inspectional bureaucracies to...
...periods. During the initial stage of city building, land speculation and development dominated,...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 1, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...of its first midwestern mill in 1906. Before building began, workers had to level the dunes, in...
...Steel ; Lake County, IN ; U.S. Steel Corp . Building a Harbor for U.S. Steel, Gary, Indiana, c.1906...
...the subsidiary of U. S. Steel charged with building and operating the plant) constructed its own...
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Emergence of Plumbers and Specialized Fixtures, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...Chicago. See also: Construction ; Water Supply ; Building Codes and Standards Thomas Kelly & Bros. ,...
...See also: Construction ; Business of Chicago ; Building Trades and Workers Back | Page 1 | Page 2 |...
...below the window on the outside right of the building. See also: Construction ; Building Trades and...
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