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Council on Fine Arts, Steve Scott(
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) ...of the arts, the 15-member, mayor-appointed Chicago Council on Fine Arts (CCFA) began work in...
...arts groups. In 1984, the council (renamed the Chicago Office of Fine Arts) was combined with the...
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| 1672 |
Elburn, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...the Loop. Named Blackberry Station when the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad built through the area...
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| 1673 |
Architecture: The Prairie School, H. Allen Brooks(
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) ...residential architectural movement that began in Chicago yet rapidly spread across the Midwest....
...seeing Wright's celebrated exhibition at the Chicago Architectural Club in March 1902. The studio...
...a post later assumed by Robinson. Among the Chicago-area homes designed during these years are the...
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| 1674 |
Naper Settlement, Harold R. Wilde(
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) ...outdoor historic village in metropolitan Chicago, began in 1969 as a cooperative effort between the...
...and print shops, the first hotel built west of Chicago, and the Martin Mitchell house (1883), deeded...
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| 1675 |
Belmont Cragin, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...and warehouses covered 11 acres, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad built a station at...
...workers to the area, which was annexed into Chicago as part of Jefferson Township in 1889. The Belt...
...playground. During the postwar years the Chicago Transit Authority extended its Belmont Street bus...
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| 1676 |
Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...mills relocated to Blue Island , Illinois. The Chicago & Alton Railroad established a roundhouse in...
...In 1889 Brighton Park was annexed to the city of Chicago as part of Lake Township . By the 1880s and...
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| 1677 |
Gage Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...that extended to the Southwest Side of Chicago. In the 1840s Germans settled there as farmers, and...
...as the town of Lake , which was annexed to Chicago in 1889. At that time, there were but 30 wood...
...the area. While Protestants tended to settle in Chicago Lawn (known more colloquially as Marquette...
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| 1678 |
Hegewisch, Erik Gellman(
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) ...first railroads across this terrain into Chicago in the 1850s. Originally part of Lake Township , it...
...years later. In 1889, Hegewisch was annexed to Chicago along with the rest of Hyde Park Township....
...lobbying for a Metra stop, a branch of the Chicago Public Library , and a $300,000 block grant to...
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| 1679 |
Hermosa, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...by railroad tracks and embankments. The Chicago & North Western Railroad line forms its western...
...south borders are hemmed by two lines of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad (CM&SP). To the...
...for a depot, which was named after him. Chicago annexed the area in 1889 under the name Hermosa, a...
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| 1680 |
Joliet, IL, Robert E. Sterling(
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) ...of stone for prison walls and cell houses. The Chicago Fire of 1871 spurred demand for stone and by...
...railroad carloads of stone per month to Chicago and other cities. The “City of Steel” emerged with...
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| 1681 |
Ravinia, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...Walter Hendl, associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , served as the first artistic...
...patrons organized a campaign directed by Chicago philanthropist Louis Eckstein to purchase the...
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| 1682 |
Dominican University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...in library science was the only such program in metropolitan Chicago and one of two in the state....
...Forest , an affluent suburb eight miles west of Chicago. Though no longer a frontier school, Rosary...
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| 1683 |
Park Forest Centre, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...most successful shopping centers in the Chicago area. Despite initial success and rapid expansion,...
...A shopping mall opened in 1949 south of Chicago in the visionary new planned suburb of Park Forest....
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| 1684 |
Camp Douglas, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...a high mortality rate: one prisoner in seven died in Chicago. Poor sanitation, hastily constructed...
...the camp, but only the abortive November 1864 “Chicago Conspiracy” roused broad concern. Federal...
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| 1685 |
Samuel Insull: Electric Magnate, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...a monopoly of central station service in Chicago for the renamed Commonwealth Edison Company. Insull...
...1892, Insull became the president of the Chicago Edison Company, one of several electric companies...
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| 1686 |
Fire Limits, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...not emerge until the 1920s. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 , the fire limit was the focus of a...
...or improvements to old wood buildings. The Chicago Common Council enacted the city's first limit in...
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| 1687 |
Johnson Publishing Co., Adam Green(
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) ...when the company employed about 1,000 people in the Chicago area. By the end of the century, Johnson...
...moved with his family from Arkansas City to Chicago in 1933, when he was a teenager. In 1942, after...
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Maxwell Street, Ira Berkow(
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) ...fields for the University of Illinois at Chicago . What remained of the market was moved several...
...hundred years, Maxwell Street was one of Chicago's most unconventional business —and residential—...
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| 1689 |
Northwest Community Organization, Thomas J. Jablonsky and Paul-Thomas Ferguson(
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) ...among other things, unfair distribution of Chicago's home-improvement loans, high utility rates, and...
...Organization served the West Town area of Chicago as “an organization of organizations,” unifying...
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| 1690 |
Palmer House, Anne Moore(
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) ...Loop business district, the Art Institute of Chicago , and downtown theaters . Too, its vast meeting...
...was long the pinnacle of grandeur and luxury in Chicago and was for decades the hotel of choice for...
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