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Flags and Symbols, Christopher Thale(
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) ...flower. Aside from notifying viewers that a building, territory, vehicle, or letter is “official,”...
...the Nation,” Chicago Heights' official seal shows buildings and fields at a crossroads. A house and...
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International Amphitheater, Sarah Fenton(
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) ...Stock Yard and Transit Company. Its original building stood at 42nd and Halsted Streets, on the east...
...to maintain. Built for $1.5 million, the building sold in 1983 to a real-estate investor for $...
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Newberry Library, Martha T. Briggs and Cynthia H. Peters(
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) ...a facility to house them. The present building, designed by Poole and architect Henry Ives Cobb,...
...library's holdings and encourage their use. Building on Pargellis's foundation, librarian Lawrence...
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Old Mill Creek, IL, Elizabeth S. Fraterrigo(
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) ...comparatively undeveloped. Most of the buildings in the almost 8,000-acre area were clustered in the...
...on the National Register of Historic Places. The buildings in the district date from the mid to late...
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Polka, Philip V. Bohlman(
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) ...for publishing and recording ethnic music and for building large dance halls (e.g. , the Trianon and...
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Special Districts, Donald F. Stetzer(
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) ...tool. The Illinois Constitution that was in effect from 1870 to 1970 narrowly limited the debt that...
...approximately 50 such districts in Cook County by 1930, and 100 by 1990. In the six-county region...
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Streeterville, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...of Chicago's most expensive land and famous buildings, including the John Hancock Center and Water...
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Fenianism, Randall M. Miller(
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) ...interest. Abortive raids on Canada in 1866 and 1870 dimmed Fenianism's star. Fenianism lingered into...
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Ukrainian Village, Wallace Best(
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) ...other ethnic groups in the neighborhood. By 1930 estimates placed the Chicago Ukrainian population...
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Andrew "Rube" Foster: A Baseball Legend, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...insane asylum. His beloved league collapsed in 1930, partly due to the Great Depression , but mainly...
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Bessie Louise Pierce and Chicago History, Walter Nugent(
Authored Entry
) ...Civic Attitudes in American School Textbooks (1930), and Citizens' Organizations and the Civic...
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Beecher, IL, Erik Gellman(
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) ...a café occupies the 1850 Old Stage Tavern building. Over 53 percent of its residents claim German...
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South Side Community Art Center, (
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) ...administration sent in workmen who renovated the building into galleries, workshops, studios, and...
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Burnham and Root, Commercial Architects, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...It was the firm's first major commercial building. Standing 130 feet tall, it is regarded by many as...
...4329 Architecture Burnham & Root Rookery Building The Rookery, built in 1885-86 and still standing...
...Illustration 6648 8307 Architecture Commercial Buildings Burnham and Root in their Rookery Office...
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The Boulevard and the Bridge, (
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...the Tribune Tower (1925). The London Guarantee and Accident Building (1923; now 360 North Michigan...
...Avenue), and both the Wrigley Building (1921) and its Annex (1924) are completed, while Wacker...
...the area south of the river and east of the buildings that line the east side of a widened Michigan...
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Furniture, John B. Jentz(
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) ...primarily of German and Scandinavian workers. In 1870, 50 percent of Chicago's cabinetmakers had...
...in 1924. This architecturally significant building at 666 North Lake Shore Drive housed the nation's...
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Whiting, IN, John Bodnar(
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) ...to drop. The population fell from 10,880 in 1930 to 5,137 by 2000, with most of the loss coming...
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Washington Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...largely black neighborhood (92 percent) as early as 1930. The area's racial transition was rapid and...
...also in 1909 at 61st and Michigan. In 1948, the building was taken over by the Church of St. Edmund,...
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West Elsdon, Douglas Knox(
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) ...Population grew from 855 in 1920 to 2,861 in 1930. The development of the nearby Kenwood and...
...its peak of 14,215 in 1960. Almost all of the new building consisted of detached single-family brick...
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West Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...had some 170 African American residents in 1930. Employers helped. International Harvester, for...
...turn of the century when the WPLA put size and building restrictions on its most desirable property...
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