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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Brighton Park, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...opened a plant in 1915, providing more jobs. By 1930, Brighton Park reached residential maturity,...
...and population declined by one-third between 1930 and 1980. Although the community remains largely...
...workers. In 1887 the Santa Fe Railroad moved in, building its Corwith Yards, then the busiest in the...
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Lake Bluff, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
Authored Entry
) ...into Lake Forest in 1895, 1908, 1912, and 1930, although never proceeding to referendum. After 1900,...
...two years later. Soon after followed the building of a commuter station (1904) and a graceful...
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Toy Manufacturing, Anne Moore(
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) ...versions of the machinery, conveniences, or building materials used by adults: cars, trains, cabs,...
...Company turned from making Erector Set–style building toys to making model-kit vehicles such as a...
...famous wooden toys. Tinkertoys—still a popular building toy—were created in Evanston by Charles H....
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Uptown, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Lewis Cochran's (1857–1923) Edgewater set a building pattern for the area that fostered a broader...
...and two decades later was instrumental in the building of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Company...
...American film industry. Luxury apartment buildings and hotels appeared along Winthrop and Kenmore...
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Agrarian Movements, Chas. P. Raleigh(
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) ...and associations following the regional 1870 Illinois Producers' Convention in Bloomington. The...
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West Garfield Park, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...Commission established three West Side parks in 1870, naming the one in the middle “Central Park. ”...
...Garfield in 1881, featured an administrative building with a gilded dome, exhibit houses for exotic...
...neglecting and overcrowding their apartment buildings. During the early 1960s, West Garfield Park...
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Infrastructure, Louis P. Cain(
Authored Entry
) ...the result that the city spent over $500 million by 1930 to widen and resurface streets. Lake Shore...
...War. The intake was protected by a crib, a building roughly the size of Chicago's largest hotel. The...
...has become one of the city's best-known buildings. Chlorination began in 1912, and filtration began...
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Amos 'n' Andy, Melvin Patrick Ely(
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) ...Amos), left, and Charles Correll (Andy), 1930. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical...
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Westchester, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...Road) in 1926 and to 22nd St. (Cermak Road) in 1930 enabled prospective buyers to view properties in...
...the removal of the rapid transit line and the building of expressways in the 1950s, transportation...
...Center, a cluster of five 10-story office buildings near Cermak Road (22nd Street) and Wolf Road....
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Calumet Heights, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
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) ...doubled, to 7,343 by 1930. The large foreign-born population included many Poles , Italians ,...
...decade, the community experienced a surge in residential building, and population more than...
...Avenue, between 87th and 91st Streets. Building slowed dramatically during the Great Depression ,...
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