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Griffith, IN, Jennifer Mrozowski(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Cabrini-Green, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...for its inhabitants' poverty and dilapidated buildings. During World War II, the Chicago Housing...
...CHA failed to budget money to repair buildings and maintain landscaping as they deteriorated....
...completing the slum removal effort begun with the building of Cabrini Homes half a century earlier....
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Chicago Academy of Sciences, Paul Heltne(
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) ...fire of 1871 . The academy rebuilt and lost its building during the economic turmoil of the 1880s....
...years, the academy built the Matthew Laflin Memorial Building, opening in Lincoln Park in 1894. This...
...J. Beecher began a process of renovation of building, exhibits, and programs. Fueled in part by...
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Crerar Library, John, Jane Aikin(
Authored Entry
) ...The Crerar Library opened in the Marshall Field building, moving in 1921 to its own home at the...
...of Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue. The building became overcrowded in the 1950s, and because...
...of Chicago's science collection in a new building opened in 1984. The merger, among the largest in...
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Parking, Nasutsa M. Mabwa(
Authored Entry
) ...G. Lydy and Ben Kissel began buying old buildings in downtown Chicago on Franklin Street, Wells...
...the obsolete structures into parking buildings. The 1930s brought about new parking-garage designs...
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Political Culture, Robin Einhorn(
Authored Entry
) ...received no property tax revenue from 1928 to 1930—the years in which the Depression began. With the...
...even as other issues supplemented them later: building a physical infrastructure to make a rapidly...
...excitement. City government concentrated on building physical infrastructure, using privatized...
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Berwyn, IL, Elizabeth A. Patterson(
Authored Entry
) ...but the community experienced a second building boom after World War II , pushing its population to...
...than doubled between 1910 and 1920, with new building concentrated in south Berwyn. Because the city...
...fastest-growing suburb. The city's stringent building codes resulted in block upon block of well-...
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Chinatown, Ying-cheng (Harry) Kiang(
Authored Entry
) ...shortage of open space, the city of Chicago is building a 12-acre park along the east bank of the...
...of Chinese architecture, the former Chinese Merchants Association Building. Adorned with red...
...pagodas, flowers, and lion sculptures, the building houses a library, meeting rooms, and a shrine....
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The Work of Janin, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...though he also includes what seem to be great buildings devoted to "Letters" and "Arts" at the south...
...5594 3662 Elevation Showing the Group of Buildings Constituting the Proposed Civic Center In this...
...of which is about as tall as the seventeen-story Railway Exchange Building. Illustration 8092 3674...
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Tax Strikes, David T. Beito(
Authored Entry
) ...ignored provision of the Illinois Constitution of 1870 requiring uniform taxation for all forms of...
...Taxpayers (ARET), which had been founded in 1930 by several wealthy real-estate owners. The chief...
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Agricultural Machinery Industry, Fred Carstensen(
Authored Entry
) ...employment in the sector grew quickly—the 1870 Census found nearly 4,000 working in agricultural...
...in Chicago's agricultural machinery sector in the 1930 census. This accounted for more than half the...
...influenced by Nettie McCormick, refocused on building the business, and the company began to regain...
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