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Vaudeville, Douglas Gomery(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Airports, Commuter, David Brodherson(
Authored Entry
) ...800-foot roof of the planned two-square-block building, which now bridges the Congress Street spur...
...engineer Ralph Burke, returned to the idea of building an air strip here. The field opened in 1948...
...years later. The exterior of this rectangular building comprised glass, steel, and precast masonry;...
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Englewood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...Englewood daily. The construction of apartment buildings in the 1910s and 1920s created problems of...
...a decline of real-estate values in Englewood. Buildings were 40 years old, and the expanding Black...
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McKinley Park, David M. Solzman(
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) ...packing. One of the first attempts at town building, “Canalport,” died stillborn, but Brighton was...
...gum. Meanwhile, the Chicago Sun-Times was building a mammoth publishing and distribution plant west...
...ethnic mix. Well-kept two- and four-flat buildings dominate the landscape, but new infill housing...
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Archer Heights, Jonathan J. Keyes(
Authored Entry
) ...increase in population between 1920 and 1930. During this decade, modern urban infrastructure and...
...picked up again after World War II . Between 1930 and 1950, Archer Heights's population inched along...
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North Park, David M. Solzman(
Authored Entry
) ...the population numbered only 478. From 1910 to 1930, however, the area burgeoned, especially after...
...the 1920s. The population tripled from 1920 to 1930 and the community was rapidly transformed from...
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Leisure, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...sacrifice, and sponsored company nines. By 1870 civic boosters raised $15,000 for a professional...
...Leisure in the Industrial Radial City, 1870–1920 Chicago's leisure patterns in the industrial radial...
...the Catholic Youth Organization , founded in 1930. i3266 Spending the day at the lakefront was a...
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Taylorism, Keith Andrew Mann(
Authored Entry
) ...as home life, upbringing, and diet. Between 1928 and 1930 alone, researchers interviewed some 21,000...
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Food Processing: Regional and National Market, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...Kraft, who began selling cheese in Chicago in 1904. By 1930, Kraft had taken over much of the cheese...
...on this giant billboard near the Palmolive Building at North Michigan and Walton. Photographer:...
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Worlds of Prairie Avenue (Essay), Janice L. Reiff(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...way to offices, warehouses, and factories. By 1930, the elite world of Prairie Avenue had all but...
...like prominent attorney Wirt Dexter (1721) began building substantial homes along the still-unpaved...
...then rented a house at 1637 Prairie before finally building a home at 1701. Although still small in...
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Antioch, IL, Douglas Knox(
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) ...residential development, with developers building hundreds of homes in several new subdivisions. The...
...system in 1905 and began to build more brick buildings. Other industries slowly developed alongside...
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