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461 Samuel Insull: Electric Magnate, Harold L. Platt( Authored Entry )
...Company. Insull also became a pioneer in building larger, regional networks of power and related,...
462 Hawthorn Woods, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...houses were mainly cedar and redwood and all building materials had to meet Larson's approval. In...
463 Metropolitan Housing Development Corporation (MHDC) v. Arlington Heights, F. Willis Caruso( Authored Entry )
...the village to obtain necessary zoning and building approval for the development of Lincoln Green,...
464 Merchandise Mart, Michael Paul Wakeford( Authored Entry )
...Mart in 1931, it was the world's largest building and contained over four million square feet of...
465 MoMing Dance and Arts Center, Nancy G. Moore( Authored Entry )
...Sally Banes. Located at 1034 W. Barry in a building owned by the Resurrection Lutheran Church, the...
466 Audy Home, Bernardine Dohrn( Authored Entry )
...a teacher in 1906, and by 1907 a new court building was established with facilities which separated...
467 Irish, Ellen Skerrett( Authored Entry )
...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...
468 Bronzeville, Dempsey J. Travis( Authored Entry )
...inhabitants. Overton supported the idea and in 1930 his newspaper sponsored an unsuccessful Mayor of...
469 Bungalows, Joseph C. Bigott( Authored Entry )
...from the kitchen, parlor, and dining room. By 1930, one-fourth of all residential structures in...
470 Wicker Park, Wallace Best( Authored Entry )
...the martyrs of the Haymarket Affair. By 1930 Wicker Park began to undergo a dramatic racial and...
471 Chicago Crime Commission, David E. Ruth( Authored Entry )
...its most successful publicity maneuver, the 1930 release of a “public enemies” list, headed by Al...
472 New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus( Authored Entry )
...Authors of the Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930's Illinois (1939) described New Lenox as a “...
473 Crib Tenders, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...Kitchen of the 68th Street Water Intake Crib, 1930   Photographer: Chicago Daily News Source:...
...Chicago Historical Society (DN-0090382) This is a 1930 view of the crew of the 68th Street water...
474 Country Club Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan( Authored Entry )
...and stands today as one of the most historic buildings in the south region. The community library...
475 Kensington, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...Baptist Church located in the former St. Salomea building. In 1998, the last remnant of Kensington's...
476 Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 1, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...fittings for indoor plumbing were of no use unless the building they were in was located adjacent to...
...on Chicago's northwest side is the oldest extant building in Chicago. The Noble family built the...
...structure in 1833 with long windows in the building's main room. Like the Clarkes, the Nobles had to...
477 Waterfront, Dennis H. Cremin( Authored Entry )
...of 1873 featured a Crystal Palace–styled building that hosted annual fairs, conventions, and other...
...entertainment over the next two decades. The building defined the lakefront as a cultural center and...
478 Fitness and Athletic Clubs, Tiffany L. Crate( Authored Entry )
...Now the Hotel Inter-Continental Chicago, the building houses a new health club for hotel guests on...
...WAC moved twice, ultimately erecting its own building at 626 North Michigan Avenue, today a Chicago...
479 Housekeeping, Glenna Matthews( Authored Entry )
...1893—the White City. The great fair, with alabaster buildings sited to create a pristine and orderly...
...displays at the White City's Electricity Building suggested possibilities for the future such as...
480 Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum( Authored Entry )
...Illinois Constitutional Convention reformed the 1870 constitution in a number of important ways. The...
...were granted in 1853, 1857, and 1861. But the 1870 Illinois Constitutional Convention reserved most...

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