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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(
Authored Entry
) ...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(
Authored Entry
) ...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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Sports, Industrial League, Gerald R. Gems(
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) ...for women. Its 20th annual track and field meet in 1930 attracted 10,000 spectators. Such programs...
...Motor Coach Employees constructed a $1 million building, while the Amalgamated Clothing Workers had...
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Veterans' Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...renamed the Veterans' Administration [VA] in 1930) consolidated veterans' affairs and the following...
...was the commandeered Cooper-Monatah Hotel building at 47th and Drexel on the South Side . Needing...
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Clarendon Hills, IL, Tom Sterling(
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) ...World War II. Population increased from 933 in 1930 to 5,885 by 1960. Ranches, Cape Cods, and split-...
...schoolhouse was replaced by a two-room brick building. The first police officer was appointed in...
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Edison Park, Ann Durkin Keating(
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) ...population grew over 400 percent to 5,370 in 1930. Little farmland remained, and the Ebinger name...
...World War I , Edison Park experienced a major building boom. Businesses and industry began locating...
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Mount Prospect, IL, David MacLaren(
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) ...that increased the number of residents to 1,225 by 1930. Although the area remained predominately...
...Corporation's efforts to rezone for the building of multifamily housing for minorities and the...
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Poles, Dominic A. Pacyga(
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) ...of nearly 60 Polish parishes in the archdiocese. In 1870, Bishop Thomas Foley invited the Polish...
...and in the 1920s cut off this immigration, by 1930 Polish immigrants and their children had replaced...
...by the congregation in the United States. In 1930 the school was renamed Weber High School. In 1952...
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Steel Mills on Sand, Page 2, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...Gary, IN ; Iron- and Steelworkers ; U. S. Steel Building Gary, Temporary Workers' Housing, 1907...
...Northwest, Gary The construction company that was building the mill did not provide housing for all...
...the first year of construction. See also: Building Trades and Workers ; Gary, IN ; Housing Reform ;...
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Almshouses, (Margaret) Dorsey Phelps(
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) ...asylum in conjunction with the almshouse in 1870. When the almshouse moved from Dunning to Oak...
...1854–1883, expanded to 240 acres with new buildings and a county-constructed railroad station called...
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Danes, J. R. Christianson(
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) ...Randolph and LaSalle Streets in the 1860s. Around 1870, some Danes established a South Side enclave...
...joined other Scandinavians to work in the building trades as carpenters, masons, painters, furniture...
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Telephony, Richard R. John(
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) ...the basements of dozens of downtown buildings. This accident had been caused when construction...
...By 1905, the total had increased to 100,000; by 1930, to 1.26 million. In per capita terms, this...
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