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Airports, Commuter, David Brodherson(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Northbrook, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...put up 2,300 apartments in 12-story high-rise buildings. Residents protested the development, which...
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Wonder Lake, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Wonder Lake in 1974 to obtain local control of building codes and zoning , and police services. The...
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DePaul University, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...the Lincoln Park Campus Library, a $25 million building and the first freestanding library in the...
...Avenue on the city's North Side. There, in a building shared with a Catholic high school, they...
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Fox River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Routes 22 and 14 when it was erected in 1980. Building continued throughout the 1990s, and the 2000...
...Opatrny's son Eman took over the land in 1900, building several cottages and a restaurant along a...
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Palos Hills, IL, William T. Corcoran(
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) ...growth allowed unit subdivisions , leading to a building boom. By 1990 the community was white and...
...the area until the 1832 Black Hawk War . The building of the Illinois & Michigan Canal from 1836 to...
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School Districts, Kenneth K. Wong(
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) ...the revenues to pay for teachers and school buildings. In 1851 the state legislature transferred...
...than 6 months, 17 districts had no school buildings. Only 10 percent of the 911 schools were graded,...
...raise tax revenue, issue bonds, construct new buildings, approve union contracts, and oversee school...
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Department Stores, Jeffrey A. Brune(
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) ...for people to spend their money; the 12-story building became a public landmark and spectacle . The...
...Schlesinger & Mayer, also offered opulent buildings to house their goods. The Schlesinger & Mayer...
...later bought, was the last large commercial building designed by Louis Sullivan, and many of his...
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Political Conventions, R. Craig Sautter(
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) ...in the Interstate Industrial Exposition Building on Michigan Avenue to nominate former speaker of...
...in the Interstate Industrial Exposition Building. Republicans nominated James G. Blaine, of Maine,...
...the Progressive Party nominated him in the same building. New Jersey governor Woodrow Wilson won in...
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Mail Delivery, Richard R. John(
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) ...in the vicinity of Fort Dearborn. The first building to be designed specifically as a post office...
...was housed in an imposing government office building in the then fashionable Second Empire style. In...
...Arts edifice. Long a Chicago landmark, this building was hailed at the time of its construction as...
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Blind Trusts, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...interested parties to make purchase offers on buildings and for tenants to know to whom to take...
...of people who owned poorly maintained apartment buildings and houses purchased “on contract. ” The...
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