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Neighborhood Change, 1853-2003 (Essay), Map Author: Michael P. Conzen and (Research assistance: Douglas Knox, Dennis McClendon)(
Rich Map (Essay)
) ...others converted to trendy loft apartment buildings. The few surviving, much neglected mansions were...
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Book Arts, Paul F. Gehl(
Authored Entry
) ...gallery inside their corporate headquarters building on 26th Street. Since World War II, the Chicago...
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City of Bridges, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...ways. Photo Essay Sections: basic bridge types building a bridge rush street bridges calumet river...
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Sanitation in Chicago, Louis Cain(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...address continued turbidity. Chicagoans voted in 1930 to construct a major filtration plant on the...
...was resolved in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1930 and resulted in a reduction of the district's...
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Crane Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...and manufactured engines and steam pumps; by 1870, when it employed about 160 people, it was making...
...and steam-heating equipment in large public buildings such as the Cook County courthouse and the...
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Serbs, Peter T. Alter(
Authored Entry
) ...in 1919 and consecrated a permanent church building in 1927. St. Archangel Michael became the...
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Shipbuilding, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...The Chicago River was too small to serve as a building site for the four- and five-hundred-foot-long...
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Tourism and Conventions, Anne Moore(
Authored Entry
) ...Chicago in the 1990s, causing a boom in hotel building, restaurant openings, and services geared to...
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University of Chicago, Robin F. Bachin(
Authored Entry
) ...and became absentee landlords, often neglecting building upkeep and maintenance. To revitalize the...
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| 680 |
Chatham, Wallace Best(
Authored Entry
) ...region of Chatham during the 1860s. The first buildings in the area were corncribs assembled by the...
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| 681 |
Climate, Wayne M. Wendland(
Authored Entry
) ...and lake and the canyon effect of the tall buildings in and near the Loop . Winter months generally...
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| 682 |
Colleges, Junior and Community, Dave Bartlett(
Authored Entry
) ...Legislators added a bill in 1959 encouraging the building of independent colleges with separate...
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| 683 |
Douglas, Adrian Capehart(
Authored Entry
) ...the Jordan, Overton Hygienic, and Chicago Bee Buildings, and at night they went to clubs where they...
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| 684 |
Environmental Regulation, Betsy Mendelsohn(
Authored Entry
) ...government put thousands of people to work building the lakefront parks designed in the Burnham Plan...
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Lumber, Theodore J. Karamanski(
Authored Entry
) ...largely focused on supplying the local market with building material. It was not unusual for farmers...
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North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman(
Authored Entry
) ...The new western development's fireproof brick buildings attracted the people and businesses burned...
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| 687 |
The City the Planners Saw, Carl Smith(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Essay)
) ...land values (and, as a result, commercial buildings) were the highest—and where offices, stores,...
...renowned historian of Chicago architecture, building, planning, and urban technology—counts 1,300...
...jammed into the back of lots meant for one building and in inhumanly overpacked multi-level...
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Houseboat Residents, Page 2, Ann Durkin Keating(
Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay)
) ...on the North Branch of the Chicago River, 1930 Photographer: Unknown Source: Chicago Historical...
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| 689 |
Street Life, Perry R. Duis(
Authored Entry
) ...property owners. Those who lifted their buildings to the new level also elevated their sidewalks,...
...downtown employees and shoppers pour out of buildings in search of lunch. In the midafternoon, women...
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Pullman, Janice L. Reiff(
Authored Entry
) ...with the Hotel Florence, the largest public building in Pullman, with the hope of creating a museum...
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