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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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Woman's Hospital Medical College, Eve Fine(
Authored Entry
) ...In 1870, after failing to gain acceptance for women in Chicago's male medical colleges, Mary H....
...loaned money to the school to purchase a school building in 1877, eased the financial woes of the...
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Mary McDowell and Chicago Settlement Houses, Louise Carroll Wade(
Authored Entry
) ...McDowell arrived in Chicago with her family in 1870. A devout Methodist, she worked with the Woman's...
...and auditorium, and built a three-story building to accommodate the residents and programs. For the...
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Free Thought, Bruce C. Nelson(
Authored Entry
) ...of Chicago, Svobodna obec Chicagu, founded in 1870, became a central community institution. That...
...newspaper in the city. These freethinkers set up building and benevolent societies, maintained a...
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Religion, Chicago's Influence on, Martin E. Marty(
Authored Entry
) ...the neighborhoods. The first Catholic church building in America considered “modern” was St. Thomas...
...architecture, however, the eye falls chiefly on buildings of Protestants and Jews that were designed...
...architects who are identified with Chicago. The buildings they designed in Chicago might not have...
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Plainfield, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...considerations, the college moved to Naperville in 1870 and eventually became North Central...
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Strikes, Richard Schneirov(
Authored Entry
) ...and regional markets. A metropolitan unionism took hold particularly among the building trades ,...
...the building service workers, and the teamsters . For the most part, strikes were not spontaneous...
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Tunnels, Dennis McClendon(
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) ...from department stores , coal to Loop office buildings, and ash and excavation spoil to fill in the...
...off important parts of the network, and Loop buildings shifted to coal delivery by truck and then to...
...most of the system and two dozen downtown buildings with open tunnel connections. Subway Tunnels...
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Artists, Education and Culture of, George H. Roeder, Jr.(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1916, brought Fernand Léger to Chicago in 1930 to show his film Le Ballet Mécanique. As encoded...
...required 1 percent of the cost of new public buildings be set aside to purchase art for the site....
...by Judge Lambert Tree and the Fine Arts Building , designed to bring together artists, musicians,...
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Sandburg Village, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...Rubloff to erect high-rise rental apartment buildings on cleared urban renewal land located between...
...the complex for poet Carl Sandburg and the buildings for other literary luminaries. Although less...
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Jewelers' Row, Eli Rubin(
Authored Entry
) ...and Wabash Streets in the Loop . In 1912 the Mallers Building at 5 S. Wabash began to house jewelry...
...In 2002, plans to convert the 5 S. Wabash building into condominiums forced many jewelers to find...
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