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Elgin, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...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(
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) ...several large cemeteries —Jewish Waldheim (1870), Concordia (1872), German Waldheim (1873), Forest...
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Long Grove, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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(
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) ...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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Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, Robert Slayton(
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) ...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(
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) ...After a temporary start in the Bankers Building, WTTW found a home in the Museum of Science and...
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Graceland Cemetery, Heidi Pawlowski Carey(
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) ...of Holabird & Roche designed the cemetery buildings, which fit into the natural landscape design....
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Camp Douglas, Theodore J. Karamanski(
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) ...Chicago. Poor sanitation, hastily constructed buildings, and harsh weather conditions were to blame....
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Samuel Insull: Electric Magnate, Harold L. Platt(
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) ...Company. Insull also became a pioneer in building larger, regional networks of power and related,...
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Hawthorn Woods, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...houses were mainly cedar and redwood and all building materials had to meet Larson's approval. In...
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Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) v. Arlington Heights, F. Willis Caruso(
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) ...the village to obtain necessary zoning and building approval for the development of Lincoln Green,...
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| 464 |
Merchandise Mart, Michael Paul Wakeford(
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) ...Mart in 1931, it was the world's largest building and contained over four million square feet of...
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MoMing Dance and Arts Center, Nancy G. Moore(
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) ...Sally Banes. Located at 1034 W. Barry in a building owned by the Resurrection Lutheran Church, the...
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Audy Home, Bernardine Dohrn(
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) ...a teacher in 1906, and by 1907 a new court building was established with facilities which separated...
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| 467 |
Irish, Ellen Skerrett(
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) ...its origins to the Jesuit parish of Holy Family in 1870, and DePaul University began in 1898 in St....
...in Lincoln Park . Since the 1840s, church building enabled Chicago's Irish Catholics to create...
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Bronzeville, Dempsey J. Travis(
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) ...inhabitants. Overton supported the idea and in 1930 his newspaper sponsored an unsuccessful Mayor of...
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Bungalows, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...from the kitchen, parlor, and dining room. By 1930, one-fourth of all residential structures in...
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Wicker Park, Wallace Best(
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) ...the martyrs of the Haymarket Affair. By 1930 Wicker Park began to undergo a dramatic racial and...
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