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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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, (
Business Dictionary
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Vaudeville, Douglas Gomery(
Authored Entry
) ...the same price as the vaudeville-only shows. By 1930 pure vaudeville had died, crushed by Hollywood....
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Constructing an Infrastructure, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...and Ship Canal construction cranes, 1895 The building of the Sanitary and Ship Canal fulfilled the...
...literally raising itself out of the mud. Several buildings were not only lifted but also moved to...
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Fair Planners and Builders, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...from left to right): George B. Post, architect of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building; M. B....
...of Works; Henry Van Brunt, Electricity Building architect; Frank Millett, Director of Color; painter...
...Charles F. McKim, architect of the Agriculture Building; Ernest R. Graham, Assistant Director of...
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Firefighting, Mark Tebeau(
Authored Entry
) ...the number of fire companies increased from 26 in 1870 to over 100 by century's end. Over the same...
...skills, firefighters scaled the sides of buildings in order to more effectively direct streams of...
...dangerous from the increased use of synthetic building materials. For instance, during the 1920s and...
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Landscape Design, Kevin Harrington(
Authored Entry
) ...bridge in Union Park on the Near West Side, 1870. Artist: Unknown. Source: The Newberry Library....
...of the Civil War , the initial individuality of building sites gave way to streetscapes bounded by...
...communities of others. High-rise apartment buildings along the lakefront spoke of the power and...
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Homelessness and Shelters, Robert Slayton(
Authored Entry
) ...an unprecedented figure) for the period October 1930 to September 1931 to 4.3 million between 1933...
...was provided by the private sector, and buildings like cage hotels (so-called because the small...
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Northfield, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...The village grew rapidly during the 1950s. From 1930 to 1980 the population increased from 320 to...
...respects by confining commercial and office buildings to eastern sections of the village. Residents...
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Streets and Highways, David M. Young(
Authored Entry
) ...$1.6 million per mile. In 1949 the city began building the Congress (later Eisenhower) Expressway on...
...and county to continue their ambitious road building. Until then, the expressways had consumed all...
...and Wisconsin. The culmination of the road-building art in Chicago was the Dan Ryan Expressway—a 14-...
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Bicycling, Allyson Hobbs(
Authored Entry
) ...10,000 members. Some clubs constructed ornate buildings equipped with gymnasiums to enable members...
...By the late 1890s, Chicago was the “bicycle-building capital of America. ” According to the 1898...
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Zoning, Joseph P. Schwieterman and Dana Caspall(
Authored Entry
) ...adopted the nation's first comprehensive building code after the Fire of 1871 and adopted nuisance...
...placing a height limit of 130 feet on downtown buildings in 1893 and gradually put into place a set...
...issues related to property values, aesthetics, buildings and sites, and the environment. The 1923...
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