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Moody Bible Institute, James Gilbert(
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Al Capone, David E. Ruth(
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) ...underworld in the “ beer wars” of 1924 to 1930. The hundreds of casualties included Dion O'Banion,...
...and Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle (1930), both posthumously regarded as corrupt, illuminated...
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Alsip, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...1,228 in 1950, but explosive growth came with building of the Tri-State Tollway in the late 1950s,...
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Woodlawn, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...arsons destroyed a reported 362 abandoned buildings between 1968 and 1971. Unemployment , poverty,...
...and entrepreneurs to Woodlawn. In the subsequent building boom, developers landscaped Jackson Park,...
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Movies, Going to the, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...seat 3,600 in its one-screen auditorium. The building featured a mansard roof and an interior lobby...
...Chicago Theater at 175 N. State Street. The building was executed by the well-known movie theater...
...would ever visit. The exteriors of these buildings were elaborately detailed, transporting the...
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Rear Houses, Joseph C. Bigott(
Authored Entry
) ...in Chicago. Typically one-story, rectangular buildings of four to six rooms, these cottages often...
...of their lots and then constructed larger brick buildings on the front of the lot. Chicago's housing...
...in dangerous passageways and foul alleys . Despite building codes , these conditions persisted. In...
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Religious Institutions, Virginia Lieson Brereton(
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) ...persisted at deeper levels. The institution building of Chicago's religious groups was accomplished...
...Presbyterian , by the time it moved into its new building on Michigan Avenue in 1914, provided a...
...new synagogue on the South Side in 1912, the building included a gymnasium, a pool, classrooms, and...
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Subdivisions, Carolyn Loeb(
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) ...improvements, and the use of restrictions, building codes , and zoning contributed to the creation...
...subdivisions with new houses, apartment buildings, and industries, urbanizing the inner suburbs...
...by increased auto ownership, produced building lots for three times the existing population. These...
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University of Illinois at Chicago, Gerald A. Danzer(
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) ...over age 21 was a UIC graduate. The oldest building on campus, Hull House , erected in 1856, has...
...neighborhood, but in 1965 classes opened in modern buildings designed by Walter Netsch. By the time...
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Mapping Chicago, Robert W. Karrow, Jr.(
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) ...time and shows the footprints of individual buildings. The first land-ownership map of Cook County ,...
...insurance atlases, which show the outlines of all buildings, name businesses, and are color coded to...
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Mundelein, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...study business school courses, he erected large buildings and hired numerous staff, primarily women....
...Mundelein, seeking to realize his dream of building a world-renowned theological seminary , had...
...in honor of the cardinal. As a grand complex of buildings rose, Mundelein played host to the 28th...
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O'Hare Airport, David Brodherson(
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) ...terminal. By the end of the century the array of buildings, transportation systems, and amenities at...
...terminal complex comprising four semiautonomous buildings linked by walkways. The terminals have...
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The Chicago Region and Its Global Models, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...headquarters in downtown Chicago. These new buildings, like some suburban developments, attracted...
...and Cities as Dual Metropolis Pullman Arcade Building, 1885 Artist: Unknown Source: Newberry Library...
...Shopping Districts and Malls Home Insurance Building, c. 1905 Photographer: Barnes-Crosby Source:...
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Retail Geography, Max Grinnell(
Authored Entry
) ...exacerbated by bulky merchandise (such as building materials) that would extend beyond the wooden...
...Co. to move into a rather ostentatious building on State Street. It is difficult to overestimate the...
...At the same time, many other suburbs were building intricate and elaborately executed retail...
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Siegel, Cooper & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...the Associated Dry Goods Corp. with the help of J. P. Morgan. The Chicago store closed around 1930,...
...its building soon occupied by Sears & Roebuck's flagship store....
...company moved into the Siegel, Cooper & Co. Building on State and Van Buren Streets. The eight-story...
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Albany Park, Timothy B. Neary(
Authored Entry
) ...the number more than tripled to 26,676. In 1930 more than 55,000 people resided in the northwest...
...of the Ravenswood Elevated line set off a building boom clustered around the train terminal at the...
...along Lawrence Avenue stood vacant. Empty buildings attracted illegal drug trade, prostitution , and...
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Grand Boulevard, Wallace Best(
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) ...32 percent of the area's 76,703 residents. By 1930 African Americans in Grand Boulevard were 94.6...
...in the wake of racial transition and the building was sold in 1944 to Corpus Christi to become a...
...Even with the demolition of some of its buildings in the late 1990s, the Robert Taylor Homes ,...
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Norwegians, Odd S. Lovoll(
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) ...41,551 Norwegian residents in Chicago, and by 1930, there were 55,948. Of these 63 percent lived in...
...a special niche in the urban economy in the building trades and as tailors, while women who worked...
...than 500 Norwegians lived in Chicago in 1850. The building of warehouses, railroads , and factories,...
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Shopping Districts and Malls, Larry Bennett(
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) ...Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3509 Pullman Arcade Building, 1885....
...The Arcade Building was home to the Pullman Bank, a library, a post office, a theater seating 1,000...
...by assembling large parcels of land and building enclosed shopping complexes to compete directly...
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Ida B. Wells: African Americans at the World's Columbian Exposition, (
Authored Entry
) ...the World's Columbian Exposition. The Haitian building stood in as a center for Americans of color....
...fair. Every day I was on duty at the Haitian building, where Mr. Douglass gave me a desk and spent...
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