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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(
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) ...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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Gays and Lesbians, Chad Heap(
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) ...as a contest for cross-dressed patrons. In 1930, Variety estimated that there were 35 such venues on...
...drag (transvestite) balls on the South Side. Building on the success of the interracial drag balls...
...community activists and organizations each year. Building on the passage of Chicago's Human Rights...
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Commodities Markets, Owen K. Gregory(
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) ...was profitable. The Illinois Constitution of 1870 placed railroads and elevators under the control...
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Court System, R. Ben Brown(
Authored Entry
) ...system elaborated in the Illinois Constitution of 1870 made little provision for specialized courts,...
...copied in cities around the United States. The 1870 constitution also established for Cook County a...
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South Shore, Wallace Best(
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) ...its residents and in housing stock. Between 1920 and 1930 the population of South Shore jumped from...
...Jackson Park prompted the sale of land and building lots and subsequently housing explosion. White...
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Water Supply, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...be diverted into the Sanitary and Ship Canal (1930) and the water supply for Illinois communities (...
...had access to a single tap within the building in which they were living because of municipal...
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Jefferson Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...larger numbers of Germans, Poles, and Italians. By 1930 the population stood at 20,532. As the...
...that the town consisted of approximately 50 buildings. When the Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac...
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Armour Square, David M. Solzman(
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) ...southern section, numbering about 4,000 by 1930. This figure remained stable through the Great...
...Chinese businessmen to secure 10-year leases on buildings in the new area. Chinatown became a major...
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Ravenswood, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...speculators hedged their real-estate gamble by building the Sunnyside Hotel adjacent to the village...
...whose small houses, two-flats, and apartment buildings filled in the gap between Chicago and its...
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Set Design, Robert R. Boyle(
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) ...1871 , which destroyed nearly every theater building in town, to the Iroquois Theatre fire in 1903,...
...the professional Goodman Theatre before its new building was completed in 2000). In its early days,...
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Villa District, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...vacant Villa property in 1913, subsequent building followed the same patterns. The Villa Improvement...
...1923 the league enhanced the Villa District by building six-foot-tall rock structures crowned with...
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