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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(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...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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Flossmoor, IL, John H. Long(
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) ...population at incorporation was 265, and by 1930 it had grown to 808. The village grew steadily...
...1898 a group of investors conceived the idea of building a golf course in the area. They asked the...
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Schools and Education, John L. Rury(
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) ...elsewhere in the country. Between 1860 and 1870 the public school population more than quadrupled,...
...rapid growth and improved attendance. Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago's population expanded by a...
...Even when the city built its first school building that year, it was derisively dubbed “Miltimore's...
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Tinley Park, IL, Dave Bartlett(
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) ...where property owners are encouraged to restore and preserve their historic buildings and homes....
...The Carl Vogt Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been restored...
...for waterproofing cement which was important in the building of Hoover Dam. John Poorman invented an...
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Woodstock, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...processing plant, one of the world's largest. The building is later became the home of the Claussen...
...1896 when city officials donated empty factory buildings to Thomas Oliver for the manufacture of the...
...Jane Addams and Leo Tolstoy spoke in the building, known as the Woodstock Opera House, on different...
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Chicago Public Library, Cathleen D. Cahill(
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) ...first librarian, William Poole, concentrated on building up the library's collections and on public...
...it for the next two decades, however, were the needed renovations to the library's central building....
...In 1977, the refurbished building reopened as Chicago's Cultural Center, also housing the library's...
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House Numbering and Street Numbering, Christopher Thale(
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) ...Numbering streets and buildings allows those not...
...familiar with a building or home to locate it more easily. Early on, Chicago created a few numbered...
...streets on the South Side . Chicago's earliest building numbers were employed in the 1840s on Lake...
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Field Museum, Steven Conn(
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) ...Palace of Fine Arts. On June 2, 1894, in that building, the Field Museum of Natural History opened...
...of the twentieth century plans for a new museum building began to take shape. Members of the Field...
...of this philanthropy was a massive white marble building in Grant Park , closer to other downtown...
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Art Colonies, Devereux Bowly, Jr.(
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) ...was located in a pair of one-story frame buildings that had been constructed to house concessions...
...Columbian Exposition of 1893. Among the few buildings not demolished after the fair, the complex...
...surrounded by three- and four-story tenement buildings occupied by artists and fellow travelers....
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Michael Reese Hospital, Wallace Best(
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) ...adjacent properties and constructing additional buildings. In 1998 the hospital's ownership shifted...
...or nationality. The original Michael Reese building, located on the corner of 29th and Groveland...
...Avenue, was replaced in 1907 by another, larger building on the same site. The hospital's medical...
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Grand Army of the Republic, David T. Thackery(
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) ...a component of the Chicago Public Library building (1897) on Michigan Avenue. Membership declined...
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