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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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Jews, Irving Cutler(
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) ...shtetlach (small rural villages or towns) and by 1930 they constituted over 80 percent of Chicago's...
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Children, Dependent, Kenneth Cmiel(
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) ...simulate a family environment. Between 1910 and 1930, most orphanages moved away from the center of...
...be very offensive. ” City leaders responded by building institutions for dependent children. These...
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North Central College, Margaret L. Frank(
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) ...College thus moved northeast to Naperville in 1870. The school struggled financially for several...
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Garfield Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...formally laid out by William Le Baron Jenney in 1870 as an integral part of the city's emerging...
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Home Rule, Jon C. Teaford(
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) ...from Springfield. Illinois' constitution of 1870 prohibited special legislation regarding city...
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Record Publishing, Mark Clague(
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) ...electric recordings, on its Autograph label. By 1930, most jazz activity had moved to New York....
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Planning Chicago, Carl Abbott(
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) ...its ideas—not Michigan Avenue or Riverside. 1930–2000: Picking up the Pieces Since the 1920s, the...
...office towers on the sites of low-rise buildings. They work within the competitive framework of the...
...graded streets, built standardized factory buildings, and leased space for factories and warehouses....
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Hungarians, Eva Becsei(
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) ...the end of the nineteenth century. From only 159 in 1870, Chicago's Hungarian population increased...
...and banks in the region. Although community building began with the creation of social clubs and...
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Racism, Ethnicity, and White Identity, David R. Roediger(
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) ...of racial exclusion were part and parcel of building increasingly inclusive unities among European...
...and exclusion. The sometimes hidden processes of building an overarching white identity through...
...might have found themselves speaking Gaelic, building parishes , voting, frequenting bars, and...
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West Englewood, Franklin Forts(
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) ...to escape urban congestion prompted a slow building boom in an area that became known as West...
...administration, many abandoned homes and vacant buildings were demolished, and repairs were made on...
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