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Bull Valley, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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Prairie Avenue, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Railroad Workers, Christopher Thale(
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) ...for railroads in 1900, and almost 30,000 in 1930. Railroad workers ranged from unskilled freight...
...began working on the railroad in 1848, when building began on the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad....
...Park . Chicago's Burnside region, home to car building and repair shops and rail yards of several...
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Flood Control and Drainage, Arlan R. Juhl(
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) ...day Summit to LaSalle. From 1861 through 1870, the city of Chicago paid to operate the Bridgeport...
...the city of Chicago raised streets, then buildings, 8 to 10 feet above natural ground level. This...
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Company Housing, Anna Holian(
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) ...industrialists opted for less intervention, building housing that they then sold to workers. Shortly...
...over housing: they owned the land and buildings, set the rents, screened (and evicted) tenants. In...
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Burnham & Root, (
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) ...Temple, which became Chicago's first 20-story building when it was completed in 1892. After Root...
...Co. Burnham and his associates continued to design many notable Chicago buildings, including...
...the Reliance Building; the offices of the city's two leading banks (First National and Commercial &...
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St. Charles, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...evidence of its past, not only in the many early buildings at the center of town, but also in names...
...for mills and used rock outcrops in the area for building stone. By 1836 a bridge and dam had been...
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Consumer Credit, Lendol Calder(
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) ...loan lenders in the country appeared in Chicago in 1870. By 1916, the city led all others in loan...
...Household in making Chicago their home. After 1930, consumer credit became more available from...
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Avondale, David M. Solzman(
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) ...Pacific tracks were extended to Milwaukee in 1870, and in 1873, a post office was built at the...
...along with some Swedes and Austrians . By 1930 Poles constituted 33 percent of the population of...
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Newspapers, Richard A. Schwarzlose(
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) ...Defender near the Supreme Liberty Life insurance Building at 3501 South Parkway (later Martin Luther...
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Civil War, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...foundation necessary for industrial expansion. By 1870 the number of factories in Chicago had...
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Art, Lynne Warren(
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) ...for the White City, the only permanent building erected for the fair was a Beaux-Arts palace of fine...
...as the Chicago Academy of Design). The Fine Arts Building , Tree Studios, and many other cultural...
...libraries , post offices, and other public buildings and celebrated the working man and woman, the...
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