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Northwestern Terra Cotta Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Included among the many landmark Chicago buildings for which Northwestern supplied extensive...
...House, the Chicago Theater, the Wrigley Building, and the Randolph Tower. Northwestern's operations...
...popularity of placing terra cotta moldings on building facades peaked in the 1920s, and Northwestern...
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Modern Kitchen, Bathroom, and Laundry Room, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...modern kitchens and bathrooms to be part of the building boom in the 1920s. Brick bungalows and two-...
...slum areas and replace deteriorating buildings with public housing up to current standards. This...
...1954. The low-rise development consisted of 89 buildings. Each unit in the project was equipped with...
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Beverly, Ellen Skerrett(
Authored Entry
) ...single-family with only a few apartment buildings clustered along the Rock Island Railroad tracks...
...new growth and many embarked on ambitious building campaigns. Beverly's Unitarians, who had...
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Italians, Rudolph J. Vecoli(
Authored Entry
) ...population, 16,008 in 1900, peaked at 73,960 in 1930. These newcomers were predominantly peasants (...
...of America . The International Hod Carriers and Building Laborers' Union of America, controlled by...
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Using the Chicago River, David Solzman(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...Chicago River locks from Lake Michigan, 1961 In 1930, the Federal Government forced Chicago to build...
...variety of tour boats to see the world-famous buildings from this unique vantage. Boat tours provide...
...carry coal, scrap, salt, and petroleum and building materials to the many industries that still...
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Public Health, Jennifer Koslow(
Authored Entry
) ...disease increased among African Americans. By 1930, 1,000 out of every 100,000 African Americans in...
...his position as head only once, from 1927 to 1930, when he fell out of political favor with Mayor...
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Banking, Commercial, Larry E. Schweikart(
Authored Entry
) ...the Continental Illinois Bank. From 1929 to 1930, more than 30 Chicago banks went out of business....
...suggested that most of the failures between 1930 and 1933 resulted more from weakening portfolios...
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Metropolitan Growth, Ann Durkin Keating(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago, and a county poor farm appeared. By 1870 a curvilinear suburban subdivision had been laid...
...also shipped the raw materials of city building into Chicago. Bricks from Northbrook , North...
...renewal funds. Despite the lower costs of building public housing on less expensive land in outlying...
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Welsh, Anne Kelly Knowles(
Authored Entry
) ...to supply services in the Welsh language. By 1870 the city had 565 Welsh-born residents and its...
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County Fairs, Marcia Lautanen-Raleigh and Charles P. Raleigh(
Authored Entry
) ...the golden age of agricultural fairs between 1870 and 1910. Chicago's fair board, incorporated in...
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Elgin, IL, David Buisseret(
Authored Entry
) ...mills. The population of Elgin grew from 5,441 in 1870 to 17,823 in 1890, when the city was divided...
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Forest Park, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
Authored Entry
) ...several large cemeteries —Jewish Waldheim (1870), Concordia (1872), German Waldheim (1873), Forest...
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Long Grove, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
Authored Entry
) ...small community, which had grown from 161 in 1870 to only 640 in 1960, deepened as the area's major...
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Orland Park, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
Authored Entry
) ...to the state house of representatives in 1870 and to the state senate in 1886. He was instrumental...
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Urban Renewal, Arnold R. Hirsch(
Authored Entry
) ...decentralization, and enhance Chicago's image by building a campus of the University of Illinois in...
...Beginning with the opening of the Prudential building in 1957, a 20-year burst of activity nearly...
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Gas and Electricity, Harold L. Platt(
Authored Entry
) ...also imitated the model of the gas company by building central stations that offered service to...
...began generating electricity, inaugurating a building program that would eventually make Chicago the...
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| 457 |
Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, Robert Slayton(
Authored Entry
) ...local banks to release funds for mortgages and building upgrades; in the first year alone there were...
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WTTW: The Beginning of Public Broadcasting, Newton Minow(
Authored Entry
) ...After a temporary start in the Bankers Building, WTTW found a home in the Museum of Science and...
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| 459 |
Graceland Cemetery, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
Authored Entry
) ...of Holabird & Roche designed the cemetery buildings, which fit into the natural landscape design....
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Camp Douglas, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago. Poor sanitation, hastily constructed buildings, and harsh weather conditions were to blame....
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