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Bessie Louise Pierce and Chicago History, Walter Nugent(
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) ...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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Art, Public, David M. Sokol(
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) ...and war years limited opportunities for large public works of sculpture, yet Ceres (1930), atop the...
...Board of Trade Building, by the expatriate Chicagoan John Storrs, is a striking art deco departure...
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Auburn Gresham, Eileen M. McMahon(
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) ...the neighborhood convenient. Between 1920 and 1930 the population of Auburn Gresham nearly tripled,...
...two- and three-flats, and apartment buildings. Approximately 44 percent of Auburn Gresham's...
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Politics, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...by state law. The new state constitution of 1870 cancelled single-city charters , and in 1872 the...
...after ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, bucked this trend. They joined the party of...
...a cleaner and more healthful urban environment—by building public beaches, preserving the lakefront...
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Crime and Chicago's Image, David E. Ruth(
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) ...in Chicago violence. The bloody beer wars of 1924–1930 made Al Capone famous and the city synonymous...
...criminality. As one journalist put it in 1930, “In all the seven seas and the lands bordering...
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Prospect Heights, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...at Camp McDonald and Elmhurst Roads. The building also served as a general store, meeting place, and...
...eastern fringes had a concentration of 110 buildings on 15 acres. This area of high density yielded...
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South Barrington, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...Road near the Northwest Toll Road . The building on the property became the corporate offices for...
...in Chicago. Over the years Rose used farm buildings for the Millrose Brewing Company, which houses a...
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University Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...south of Park Forest for a large subdivision. Building began in 1961, but by 1967 Wood Hill had only...
...preserves and recreation areas were addressed, building on recreation area set-asides and major land...
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Woodridge, IL, Aaron Harwig(
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) ...Woodridge area before the Indians moved west, building the first log cabin and coexisting with the...
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World War II, Perry R. Duis(
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) ...grew victory gardens. The neighborhood was the building block of these home front activities that...
...at 176 W. Washington and in the Auditorium Building , the latter serving 24 million meals by the end...
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Bosnians, Asad Husain(
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) ...economic opportunities. Many found jobs in the construction and mining industries, building roads,...
...downtown buildings, and tunnels for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA). Bosnian Serbs and Croats...
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