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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Bull Valley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...wooded terrain. Containing historic 1850s buildings such as the noted Terwilliger and Stickney...
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Prairie Avenue, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
Authored Entry
) ...of Prairie Avenue was built by Daniel Thompson in 1870. Marshall Field soon followed in 1871 with a...
...Romanesque houses. Perhaps the best-known building on Prairie Avenue is H. H. Richardson's Glessner...
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Washington Park, Robin F. Bachin(
Authored Entry
) ...Grove Avenue between 51st and 60th Streets. In 1870 noted landscape designers Frederick Law Olmsted...
...The Great Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the building that housed Olmsted and Vaux's blueprints. The...
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Quarrying, Stone Cutting, and Brick Making, Mark R. Wilson(
Authored Entry
) ...1890s local limestone had been displaced for building purposes by better-quality Bedford limestone...
...and cement and lime production. In Chicago's building materials industry, no less important than the...
...area, and the walls of thousands of local buildings and homes stood as evidence of the past vitality...
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Conservatories, Julia Sniderman Bachrach(
Authored Entry
) ...with horticulture. This, along with advances in building technology, led to the development of...
...above ornate sunken gardens in 1897. The building was demolished in the 1930s. i3118 Washington Park...
...and Garfield Parks and a larger Prairie-style building known as Flower Hall in Douglas Park. There...
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Kenwood, Max Grinnell(
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) ...47th Street. The area had few apartment buildings, and wealthy residents continued to commission...
...proliferated. Numerous walk-up apartment buildings were constructed west of the Illinois Central...
...of two impressive art deco elevator apartment buildings along with the increased popularity of the...
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Bellwood, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...population grew steadily between 1900 and 1930. The 1910 population of 943 doubled by 1920 as more...
...accounts for the jump to 4,991 residents in 1930. After World War II , large industries, several of...
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Urban League, Preston H. Smith II(
Authored Entry
) ...environment of black protest activity after 1930 . During the Great Depression , the league became...
...the 1960s. i3828 Chicago Urban League pamphlet, 1930–31. Source: Chicago Historical Society. FIGURE...
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Fox Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...came to Fox Lake with a vengeance on June 1, 1930, when three men friendly to anti-Capone interests...
...population of Fox Lake grew slowly between 1930 and 1950. The Depression-era trend of turning summer...
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Mexicans, Gabriela F. Arredondo and Derek Vaillant(
Authored Entry
) ...local newspapers like Mexico (renamed El Nacional in 1930) and El Ideal. By the early 1930s they had...
...sanitation problems in already dilapidated buildings. Several men lived together in one or two rooms...
...to U.S. citizens. In the late 1930s, building on labor traditions in Mexico and bolstered by the...
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