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Mount Greenwood, Clinton E. Stockwell(
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) ...fighting the city for curbs and gutters. From 1930 to 1950, Mount Greenwood experienced its first...
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Mailing To the World, Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...Essay) International Harvester Company Annual Report, 1930 Creator: International Harvester Co....
...Chicago Historical Society (ICHi-59214) This 1930 annual report of the International Harvester Co....
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Emergence of Plumbers and Specialized Fixtures, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...products were part of the post-World War II building boom that took place on Chicago’s Southwest and...
...closets, and more. See also: Construction ; Building Trades and Workers Montgomery Ward & Co. ,...
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Bloomingdale, IL, Jane S. Teague(
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) ...shopping and professional area, complete with replicas and renovations of historic buildings....
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Community Organizing, Larry Bennett(
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) ...the mid-1970s, its agenda-setting, coalition-building, and fund-raising strategies were adopted by...
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Fort Sheridan, Eleanor Hannah(
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) ...Environmental cleanup began in 1993. Ninety-four buildings, including 64 designed by Holabird &...
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Oakbrook Terrace, IL, Margaret Franson Pruter(
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) ...construction of DuPage County's tallest office building, the 31-story Oakbrook Terrace Tower near...
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Palatine, IL, David Buisseret(
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) ...up to rapid automobile travel, and residential building accelerated. The streets were generally laid...
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Baseball, Raymond Schmidt(
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) ...were 45 amateur teams competing in the city. By 1870 the newspapers of Chicago were reporting the...
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Suffrage, Maureen A. Flanagan(
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) ...enfranchised African Americans in Illinois in 1870, black Chicagoans moved slowly into politics and...
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Cubs, Steven A. Riess(
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) ...known as the White Stockings, was organized in 1870 to advertise the city. The squad joined the new...
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Civil Rights Movements, James Ralph(
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) ...Black Chicagoans resented these restrictions. In 1870 they gained the right to vote, in 1874 they...
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Domestic Work and Workers, Daniel A. Graff(
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) ...cooking, cleaning, and childcare chores. By 1870, one in five Chicago households employed domestic...
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Waste Disposal, Christopher Thale(
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) ...also eliminated standing water. Many Chicago buildings and streets now rest on as much as a dozen...
...incinerators in schools, hospitals , apartment buildings, and single-family residences began to shut...
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Wholesaling, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...when the company moved into a new 11-story building at the foot of State Street Bridge , it was one...
...center—that became the world's largest building when it was completed in 1931. But despite these...
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Grocery Stores and Supermarkets, Paul Gilmore(
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) ...city's first municipal structure, the Market Building. Mid-nineteenth-century wholesale and retail...
...Rising real-estate prices and the restrictive building codes in the city center following the...
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Creating the Plan, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...particular project. His firm had designed the buildings in which many of their set lived and worked,...
...as well as railway terminals. Railway Exchange Building The planners devoted their first and several...
...on the fourteenth floor of the Railway Exchange Building. He put a small team of draftsmen to work...
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Built Environment in a Mercantile Metropolis, Ann Durkin Keating and Sarah S. Marcus(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Gallery)
) ...environment consisted of small, mostly wood building. Even facilities associated with the area's...
...in the region. By the 1850s and 1860s, some buildings incorporated more elaborate architectural...
...to remain forever Open, Clear, & free of any buildings, or other Obstructions Whatever." During the...
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Rapid Transit System, Ronald Dale Karr(
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) ...and near-suburban neighborhoods between 1892 and 1930. Similar construction and equipment standards...
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Trade Publications, Kathleen L. Endres(
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) ...tabloids that he launched, started in Chicago in 1930 but has since moved to New York City. Many of...
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