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