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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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Block 37, Ross Miller(
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) ...block missed no trend, from the first office buildings in the 1870s to the early skyscrapers of the...
...All the city's variety was packed into 16 buildings of various size and condition. Its landlords,...
...name of urban renewal, every one of its buildings—including, without distinction, its architectural...
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Oak Park, IL, Tina Reithmaier and Camille Henderson Zorich(
Authored Entry
) ...by apartments and commercial and office buildings. Builders like Seward Gunderson and Thomas Hulbert...
...Both communities, however, also had aging housing stock and weak zoning and building codes . Over...
...of Oak Park's housing comprised apartment buildings, most concentrated along its eastern border. Oak...
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Soils, Donald J. Fehrenbacher(
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) ...soil is treated as a nuisance or at best a building material with no concern for its natural fabric....
...landscape , ideal for the foundations of buildings and streets, is inhospitable for plants because...
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Chicago's Twentieth-Century Cultural Exports, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Tourism and Conventions Travel and Transport Building, Century of Progress, 1932 Photographer:...
...America's social and economic future. Many of the exposition's exhibits and buildings (including the...
...Travel and Transport Building, designed by Edward H. Bennett, John Holabird, and Hubert Burnham)...
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Reading the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...improvement of the Lake Front," notably the building of a shoreline parkway and the development of...
...give coherence and unity to the city," notably by building new homes for the Field Museum and Crerar...
...constructing a mammoth civic center of government buildings at the intersection of widened Congress...
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Grain Trade, Page 3, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...engine. See also: Firefighting ; Water Supply 1930 Goose Island Elevator Fire Photographer: Chicago...
...in a grain elevator on Goose Island in May 1930. Firefighters battled for more than five hours into...
...Armour actually donated the two-story frame building that housed the engine company. John A. Groves,...
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Lake County, IL, Michael H. Ebner(
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) ...advanced 71 percent (or 6,111) between 1900 and 1930. By 1925, Abbott Laboratories had relocated to...
...Lake County exceeded 100,000 inhabitants in 1930, its population included its first urban clusters—...
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Rolling Meadows, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...the city to become more stringent in their building codes , which had allowed for frame multifamily...
...Developers inundated the area with apartment buildings and by 1970 multifamily dwellings made up 35...
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Vernon Hills, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Hills, they built 24 houses and some apartment buildings. The village incorporated in 1958 with 123...
...development; after 1980, commercial buildings were increasingly added through annexations . In 1986...
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Brookfield, IL, Emily Clark(
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) ...Quincy Railroad (now Metra ). The first building Gross erected in the new subdivision was a train...
...homes built during the post–World War II building boom. The village board system of government...
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