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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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.(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Economic Geography, Susan E. Hirsch(
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) ...city would recover and investors would profit. From 1870 to 1920 Chicago was “the metropolis of the...
...and freight. In the next decades, railroad building devoured more of Chicago's physical space, and...
...manufacturers followed Pullman's lead in building decent neighborhoods, although others followed him...
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The Plan Comes Together, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...or upstate New York. W. L. Jenney, Home Insurance Building Young Daniel Burnham was very uncertain...
...started designing the public and commercial buildings that earned them their enduring place among...
...grace Chicago. These include the Rookery Building (1888) at LaSalle and Adams, where Burnham and...
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Swiss, Leo Schelbert(
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) ...between 1820 and 1990 easily blended into American life. In 1870 there were some 1,500 Swiss in...
...Chicago out of 8,980 in Illinois; in 1930, 4,230 out of 7,315. In the 2000 census more than 20,000...
...surgeon Nicholas Senn, also at Rush, donor of a building for medical research and of two European...
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Cook County, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...contiguous urban settlement grew substantially. By 1870, the Cook County Board was an unwieldy group...
...10 acres of land from the state for public buildings, and appointed a county clerk. Soon after, the...
...disappeared in the face of the speculative building boom of the 1920s. Industrial and residential...
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Iron- and Steelworkers, Jonathan Rees(
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) ...of old that helped build the railroads, buildings, and automobiles of a bygone era. i3638 Open-...
...in Chicago proper, U.S. Steel began work on building the city of Gary , Indiana, in 1906 so that it...
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Yorkville, IL, Brandon Johnson(
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) ...of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad in 1870. Smaller retail stores satisfy the bulk of the...
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Russians, Katarzyna Zechenter(
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) ...had recently begun intensifying at home. By 1930, they constituted 80 percent of Chicago's Jewish...
...Lawndale , Lake View , and Albany Park . By 1930, the population of Russian Jews in the Maxwell...
...Russian-American Citizen's Club was organized in 1930 to lend a hand and voice to a growing number...
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South Loop, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...developers had recognized the potential of loft buildings on Printers' Row, and those were converted...
...the nation's printing center, high loft buildings filled the narrow blocks near Dearborn Station,...
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Lindenhurst, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...the primary developer into the early 1980s, building homes along with some small shopping areas and...
...in suburbs much closer to Chicago. The pace of building accelerated in the 1970s, and by 1990 the...
...its sewer capacity. New village and police buildings were constructed in the mid-1990s, along with a...
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Icelanders, Playford V. Thorson(
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) ...Icelandic Association of Chicago, founded in 1930. Membership in 1999 numbered about 90, with 35–40...
...eruptions and famine in the 1870s and 1880s. Until 1930 Icelanders were counted as Danes by the U.S....
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