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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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Lake Forest, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...shopping center. Population reached 6,554 by 1930, with much of the growth occurring in the 1920s....
...municipal officials enacted the nation's first building-scale ordinance in 1989 to regulate the...
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World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...visible behind it, and the Agricultural Building appears at the left. The ensemble of neoclassical...
...the exposition was the assembly of titanic buildings around the Basin in the Court of Honor, located...
...governments to participate in the fair by building exhibitions that might highlight their nation's...
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American Planning Association, Ruth Eckdish Knack(
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) ...along with 16 other organizations, moved into a building specially constructed for public service...
...Rockefeller Foundation, which financed the building at 1313 E. 60th Street. The brainchild of city...
...has occupied space in the old People's Gas Building at 122 South Michigan Avenue, designed by Daniel...
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Fire Limits, Robin Einhorn(
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) ...around the center of a city within which buildings had to be constructed of brick or stone rather...
...major repairs or improvements to old wood buildings. The Chicago Common Council enacted the city's...
...to encourage commercial development into a general building code for the city. The fire limit was...
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High Culture, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Society was founded in 1856, but its first building and virtually all of its early collections were...
...at Clark Street and North Avenue in 1932, this building went through a series of owners and uses,...
...public. Like the old Chicago Historical Society building pictured above, it was designed by Henry...
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Work, David Moberg(
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) ...started making grain harvesters, furniture , and clothing for farmers and frontier towns. From 1870...
...women's natural domestic and maternal roles. In 1870, two-thirds of female workers in Chicago were...
...to 1930, Chicago grew rapidly from bustling trading center to quintessential industrial complex,...
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Wigwam, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...the dark-horse candidate from Illinois. The building was used for political and patriotic meetings...
...Subdivided into several stores, the rectangular building functioned as a retail space until its...
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Bruce Graham on Modernism, (
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) ...it is to painting or sculpture. Most New York buildings are sculpture. They don't have any sense of...
...forget when the taxi drivers loved the Hancock Building best. And I said that's exactly what I want....
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State Politics, Michael J. Devine(
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) ...the giant and attempting to tie it down. ” By 1870, Chicago already held 12 percent of the state's...
...politicians, and the state constitution of 1870 created a unique cumulative voting mechanism for...
...leaped to 35 percent by 1900, and 44 percent by 1930. After 1900 the state had no reapportionment...
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Roman Catholics, Steve Rosswurm(
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) ...1900, 76 percent of all parishes had schools; in 1930, 93 percent; in 1965, 95 percent. The parish...
...not have existed. From its earliest days, building schools was central to Chicago's Catholic Church....
...was founded in 1874, and a large classroom building to house its growing enrollment was erected 15...
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