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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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George Pullman and His Town, Liston E. Leyendecker(
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) ...himself in Chicago in March 1859, as a building raiser and mover. He soon began converting railroad...
...organizations. He also erected the Pullman Building in downtown Chicago and a home on Prairie...
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Center for Neighborhood Technology, Stephen A. Perkins(
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) ...Its work includes policy research and coalition building. Founded in 1978, the center has anchored...
...made 12,000 housing units and 170 nonprofit-owned buildings energy efficient and helped small metal...
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Chicago Commons, Louise Carroll Wade(
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) ...events. In 1901, it constructed a five-story building on Grand Avenue with a gymnasium, auditorium,...
...Commons Association in 1948. The Grand Avenue building was sold and the proceeds used to establish...
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Graffiti, Mary Lackritz Gray(
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) ...or drawings made on public surfaces such as buildings, fences, and sidewalks are generally called...
...to remove graffiti from more than 700,000 buildings. Graffiti art, now part of the hip-hop movement,...
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Architecture: The City Beautiful Movement, Thomas S. Hines(
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) ...and whatever the style of particular buildings within its plans, the provenance and thrust of City...
...Baroque in its emphasis upon processions of buildings and open spaces arranged in groups. For the...
...from one specific point to another. Great buildings or monuments were sited so as to become the...
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Protestants, Martin E. Marty(
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) ...Scandinavian, had formed 17 congregations by 1870 and within two decades were the largest Protestant...
...in 1848 the Norwegian Lutheran Evangelical members erected their first building. Lutherans, many of...
...a congregation that had its own permanent building by 1854. Soon Bethel African Methodist Episcopal...
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Agricultural Journals, Chas. P. Raleigh(
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) ...development and production between 1880 and 1930. While Chicago's agricultural journalists have...
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Printing, Paul F. Gehl(
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) ...it the region's printing center. From 1850 to 1870, Chicago developed a fully integrated printing...
...of a characteristic tall and narrow loft-style building to house rows of presses in rooms with good...
...Printing House Row Historic District, these buildings are decorated flamboyantly with bas-reliefs...
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Unemployment, Alan Harris Stein(
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) ...in Illinois were unemployed by the end of 1930. By mid-1932, the Communist -led Chicago Workers...
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Barrington, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Barrington's population grew from 3,213 in 1930 to only 5,435 in 1960. But with the construction of...
...request, the railroad moved the station building to his new community, which he called Barrington...
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