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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
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) ...that time, and the population grew to 1,176 in 1930. Keen's foundry became a large employer in the...
...collapsed during the Great Depression , and the building was later used for a library. In the 1920s,...
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Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Diana Haskell(
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) ...Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This dual approach to building repertory, along with its mission to tour...
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Fuller (George A.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...several skyscrapers, including the Tacoma Building designed by Holabird & Roche. Fuller was one of...
...and built several large structures in that city, including the New York Times Building and Daniel...
...Burnham's Flatiron Building, which was known briefly as the Fuller Building because the company was...
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Hinsdale, IL, Tom Sterling(
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) ...the Hinsdale Plan of early civic leaders. In 1870, 43 percent of Hinsdaleans were originally from...
...zoning ordinances. The colonial-style Memorial Building, which today houses village offices, was...
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Innovation, Invention, and Chicago Business, Louis P. Cain(
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) ...a connection between Chicago and New York and, in 1930, obtained National Air Transport, with whom...
...company introduced Nembutal, a sedative-hypnotic, in 1930, and a few years later Abbott scientists...
...is thought to be Chicago's first frame building used for business—specifically, the slaughtering and...
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Lake Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...area, home of the Union Stock Yard , between 1870 and 1880. The incorporated government could not...
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Lake View Township, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...from Chicago. The area population grew from 2,000 in 1870 to 45,000 in 1887, and under the weight of...
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Advertising, Quentin J. Schultze(
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) ...in the world, was started in the Windy City in 1930. The magazine's critical style set the standard...
...agency Cook, Coburn & Co. , in the Kendall Building, corner of Dearborn and Washington, 1874....
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Government, Suburban, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...manufacturing concerns. Moreover, between 1914 and 1930 the elite communities of Glencoe, Winnetka,...
...of political life. i3496 Dolton Municipal Building, 1973. Photographer: Casey Prunchunas. Source:...
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Wheaton College, Thomas O. Kay(
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) ...approximately 400 in 1925 to 1,100 in 1940), a building program, strong academic development, and...
...adding a library, a student center music building, a chapel, new dormitories, and food service...
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