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631 Single Room Occupancy Hotels, Robert A. Slayton( Authored Entry )
...hotel. These were lofts or other large, open buildings that were subdivided into tiny cubicles using...
632 Inverness, IL, Ronald Martin( Authored Entry )
...1920s and 1930s, were mostly one-story buildings of the Cape Cod, Williamsburg, English Cotswold,...
633 Art Centers, Alternative, Lynne Warren( Authored Entry )
...some important precedents, including the Art Building Gallery, founded in 1862 to provide local and...
634 Libertyville, IL, Craig L. Pfannkuche( Authored Entry )
...and the village board decreed that only brick buildings could be constructed in the downtown area....
635 Lyric Opera, John von Rhein( Authored Entry )
...the front ranks of international opera companies by building a roster of European singers whom the...
636 Malians, Tracy Steffes( Authored Entry )
...created in 2001, is still in the process of building a strong organization but has the support of...
637 Matteson, IL, Ian McGiver( Authored Entry )
...is the site of several corporate office buildings and is home to the Lincoln Mall (1973), one of the...
638 McHenry, IL, John D. Schroeder( Authored Entry )
...proliferated along the Fox River. A boat-building industry flourished; marine recreation still...
639 Midway Airport, Derek Vaillant( Authored Entry )
...of a passenger terminal and administration building in 1931, and federal grants in subsequent years...
640 Movie Palaces, Douglas Gomery( Authored Entry )
...movie house patrons and, in 1921 with the building of the Tivoli and Chicago, to dehumidify them as...
641 New Deal, Roger Biles( Authored Entry )
...Federal government funds provided for the building of 30 new schools and the city's first public...
642 Aurora, IL, Catherine Bruck( Authored Entry )
...center, primarily of heavy-machine building equipment. In 1856 the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy...
643 Norwood Park, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry( Authored Entry )
...to Chicago. In 1868 the Norwood Land and Building Association created its curvilinear subdivision ....
644 Palos Heights, IL, Betsy Gurlacz( Authored Entry )
...did Palos Heights acquire its own post office. The building of subdivisions continued throughout the...
645 Connecting Houses to Water Networks, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...added thousands of dollars to the costs of the buildings. See also: Construction Palmer Houses, 36-...
...23845) Clearly seen here are the expensive building materials employed on facades of these houses...
646 Children and the Law, Kriste Lindenmeyer( Authored Entry )
...mortality rate by 50 percent between 1920 and 1930. Child labor was another controversial legal...
647 Romanians, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...parish was organized, and the first church building (1345 West Webster) was consecrated in 1915. St....
648 School Desegregation, John L. Rury( Authored Entry )
...than in black ones, even though more new buildings had been erected for black students. School...
649 Slovenes, Emily Brunner( Authored Entry )
...was taken over by the Jesuits and the parish buildings converted into a high school. Many of the...
650 Syrians, Sarah Gualtieri( Authored Entry )
...grown to over 350 people and was able to buy a building of its own on South Washtenaw. The new St....

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