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571 Sleepy Hollow, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...bodies who would impose high taxes and stringent building codes . But as the surrounding communities...
572 Batavia, IL, Marilyn Robinson( Authored Entry )
...sanitarium for women in a former high-school building. Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of the assassinated...
573 St. Lawrence Seaway, David M. Young( Authored Entry )
...that British Canada would control trade by building a canal around Niagara Falls, completed the Erie...
574 Stone Park, IL, Richard Harris( Authored Entry )
...builders avoided the area, which had no building codes or municipal services. Land was cheap during...
575 Street Naming, Michael Paul Wakeford( Authored Entry )
...known by several different names. In 1901, building superintendent Edward P. Brennan confronted the...
576 Armories, Eleanor Hannah( Authored Entry )
...traditional practice of renting easily modified buildings. Armories also emerged as the locus of...
577 Water Polo, Robert Pruter( Authored Entry )
...formed water polo teams not long after building swimming pools, in 1904 and 1910 respectively, each...
578 Burnham Plan, Cynthia R. Field( Authored Entry )
...was the organizing principle for the buildings, streets, and parks. In the following decades, as a...
579 Aldermanic Privilege, Christopher Thale( Authored Entry )
...alley cleaning, and permits for driveways and building conversions. Aldermen, in turn, typically...
580 Addison, IL, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...The Lutheran seminary relocated in 1913, and its buildings were occupied by the Chicago City Mission...
581 Architecture, Ann Durkin Keating( Authored Entry )
...they designed the region's most important buildings, many of which were destroyed in the fire of...
582 Chicago Historical Society, Michael H. Ebner( Authored Entry )
...Fire of 1871 destroyed the society's 1868 building at the northwest corner of Dearborn and Ontario...
583 Communist Party, Randi Storch( Authored Entry )
...and union groups in the needle, metal, and building trades ; printing ; railroads ; and food...
584 Air Quality, David Stradling( Authored Entry )
...city, ruining furniture, merchandise, and even building facades. Chicago legislated against dense...
585 Gas Stations, Tracy Steffes( Authored Entry )
...from the 1920s to 1960s. The gas station building itself reflected a corporate projected image, and...
586 Gated Communities, Patrick M. McMullen( Authored Entry )
...for over a century. Every hotel or apartment building with a doorman or a fence controls the flow of...
587 Hindus, Vinay Lal( Authored Entry )
...doorway) in the South Indian style and another building in the North Indian style, was established...
588 Hull House, Mary Ann Johnson( Authored Entry )
...1856 mansion had expanded to a massive 13-building complex covering nearly a city block. The new...
589 Inland Steel Co., Jonathan Keyes( Authored Entry )
...A new Chicago headquarters, the Inland Steel Building on Monroe Street, was built in 1957. During...
590 Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, Karen Mary Davalos( Authored Entry )
...arts education, youth, and intercultural coalition building, the MFACM embodies the culturally based...

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