| 491 |
Global Chicago, Michael P. Conzen(
Authored Entry
) ...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...
|
| 492 |
Machine Politics, Roger Biles(
Authored Entry
) ...system from 53 to 506 miles, and a monumental building boom that revitalized the downtown Loop area—...
|
| 493 |
Planning Before the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...other towns') rectangular street grid, the building of Fort Dearborn near the mouth of the Chicago...
...opening of the Union Stock Yard in 1865, the building of the model town of Pullman in the 1880s, and...
...the extent of the damage to hurried and sloppy building. Olmsted—who had recently designed the South...
|
| 494 |
River Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...decade. Population rose to 484 in 1920 and by 1930 was at 2,741. Triton College, on the village's...
|
| 495 |
Stickney, IL, Ronald S. Vasile(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago, the plant, opened in phases since 1930, takes up 40 percent of the village's land and is...
|
| 496 |
Belarusians, Vitaut Kipel(
Authored Entry
) ...published in celebration of Whiterussian Day in 1930, drawing on records of the Belarusian Committee...
|
| 497 |
Villa Park, IL, Aaron Harwig(
Authored Entry
) ...nearly tripled its initial population of 300; in 1930, over 6,000 residents called Villa Park home....
|
| 498 |
Westmont, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...trade continued. Population grew to 2,733 in 1930; and as late as 1939, 35 percent were foreign-...
|
| 499 |
Chicago Lawn, Eileen M. McMahon(
Authored Entry
) ...this bungalow belt community. Between 1920 and 1930 the population increased from 14,000 to 47,000....
|
| 500 |
Community Areas, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...of Chicago Press published editions of the 1920, 1930, and special 1934 census with information...
|
| 501 |
Des Plaines, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...and the population more than doubled to 8,798 in 1930. A city form of government was adopted in 1925...
|
| 502 |
Estonians, Bernard Maegi(
Authored Entry
) ...also fled after the failed 1905 revolution. In 1930, immigrants such as these organized Chicago's...
|
| 503 |
Evergreen Park, IL, Betsy Gurlacz(
Authored Entry
) ...705 in 1920, a 30-year growth spurt began in 1930. The Little Company of Mary Hospital opened that...
|
| 504 |
Ice Hockey, Seth Brady(
Authored Entry
) ...Americans (1926–1927) and the Chicago Shamrocks (1930–1932). It was not until 1963, when the...
|
| 505 |
Homewood, IL, John H. Long(
Authored Entry
) ...from 713 in 1910 to 1,389 in 1920 and 3,227 in 1930. Relatively little direct benefit accrued from...
|
| 506 |
Latvians, Andris Straumanis(
Authored Entry
) ...trickle, although numbers are sketchy, since until 1930 the census grouped Latvians with Russians or...
|
| 507 |
Leather and Tanning, David Blanke(
Authored Entry
) ...leather” production remained stable from 1890 to 1930, the relative slow growth in leather-working...
|
| 508 |
Legal Aid, Christopher Thale(
Authored Entry
) ...connections or money were often ignored. In 1930 Cook County appointed its first public defender to...
|
| 509 |
Morton Grove, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
Authored Entry
) ...between 300 and 500 workers. Between 1900 and 1930 the local economy depended on the wholesale...
|
| 510 |
Motoring, James Akerman(
Authored Entry
) ...to one car for every eight inhabitants by 1930, but lagged behind state and national averages (...
|