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Chicago Crime Commission, David E. Ruth(
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) ...its most successful publicity maneuver, the 1930 release of a “public enemies” list, headed by Al...
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New Lenox, IL, Sarah S. Marcus(
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) ...Authors of the Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930's Illinois (1939) described New Lenox as a “...
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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...
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Country Club Hills, IL, Larry A. McClellan(
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) ...and stands today as one of the most historic buildings in the south region. The community library...
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Kensington, Janice L. Reiff(
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) ...Baptist Church located in the former St. Salomea building. In 1998, the last remnant of Kensington's...
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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...
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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...
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Fitness and Athletic Clubs, Tiffany L. Crate(
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) ...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...
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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...
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Governing the Metropolis, Anthony Orum(
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) ...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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Telegraph, Christopher Thale(
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) ...Electric Company relocated from Cleveland in 1870. Most railroad stations served as telegraph...
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Liquor Distribution, Sudhir Venkatesh(
Authored Entry
) ...however, grew enormously, particularly after 1870. By the turn of the century, the city had over 50...
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Art Criticism and Scholarship, David M. Sokol(
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) ...art criticism in Chicago starts with Art Review (1870), which closed after the Great Fire of 1871 ....
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Lombard, IL, Elizabeth M. Holland(
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) ...Register of Historic Places, was constructed in 1870 to serve a growing population. While commuters...
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Luxembourgers, Kathleen Neils Conzen(
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) ...important base of Luxembourg identity. After 1870 Chicago's Luxembourgers were able to construct a...
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Germans, Christiane Harzig(
Authored Entry
) ...during the peak period of mass migration (1820–1930) 5.9 million reached the United States. Flight...
...ethnic community, while at the same time building a Midwestern city. If it seems sometimes difficult...
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Schooling for Work, Arthur Zilversmit(
Authored Entry
) ...saw the classroom as the basic unit for building a democratic community. For him, manual training...
...by the notoriously racist unions of the building trades , had an enrollment that was 99 percent...
...diverse” of any community college in Illinois. Building on an institution begun in 1956, Truman has...
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Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Interpretive Digital Essay
) ...and, increasingly, to a great height as tall buildings became technically feasible and businesses...
...in the totemic Prudential Insurance Building. But it was a fractured modernity, tolerating racial...
...as spectacular nighttime lighting effects on tall buildings and other landmarks. Gentrification and...
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Fermilab's Accelerator Ring: Metropolitan Chicago's Largest Circle, (
Authored Entry
) ...aesthetic sort of guy. After all the work of building the accelerator, he was disappointed that he...
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Saul Bellow on Chicago, (
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) ...1975, describing the view from the Hancock Building): From the skyscraper I could contemplate the...
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