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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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Brookfield Zoo (Chicago Zoological Park), Dennis A. Meritt, Jr.(
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) ...Chicago Zoological Society. The following year, building began and George Frederick Morse, Jr. , was...
...But by late in 1931 momentum had returned to building what would become America's first zoo with...
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Deer Park, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...to buy land surrounding the station in hopes of building a village, its attempts were blocked by the...
...1990s residents unsuccessfully opposed the building of the Brunswick Deer Park Lanes bowling alley....
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Glencoe, IL, Adam H. Stewart(
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) ...residential community. The charter included the building of a school and a church and the hiring of...
...from the pumping station in Winnetka until building its own in 1928. A sewage system was constructed...
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Hillside, IL, Patricia Krone Rose(
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) ...the mid-1970s, supplying crushed stone for road-building throughout the Chicago region. Against the...
...Hillside Theaters, the High Point Tower office building, and the industrial park on Fencl Lane. With...
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Hobart, IN, Elin B. Christianson(
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) ...market. In 1886, the W. B. Owen brickworks converted from bricks to terra cotta building tile....
...Used for fireproof building construction, terra cotta found a ready market in Chicago and beyond....
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Lebanese, Sarah Gualtieri(
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) ...the congregation, which proudly purchased its own building near Waller and Race Avenues, where it...
...fellow Lebanese to support his project for the building of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in...
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Melrose Park, IL, Richard Harris(
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) ...Sol Bloch Real Estate Improvement Company was building more than a hundred homes in Melrose Park and...
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Museum of Science and Industry, Jonathan J. Keyes(
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) ...its location the former Palace of Fine Arts Building in Jackson Park , the last structure left from...
...of Natural History. Vacant since 1920, the building required extensive renovation, which began in...
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O'Hare, Amanda Seligman(
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) ...wider stretch along Foster Avenue in 1961. The building of the Kennedy Expressway in the late 1950s...
...provided by the airport. High-rise apartment buildings and a few small tracts of single-family...
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Orphanages, Kenneth Cmiel(
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) ...warehoused children in unhealthy, overcrowded buildings. Reformers wanted children kept at home....
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