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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...
682 Colleges, Junior and Community, Dave Bartlett( Authored Entry )
...Legislators added a bill in 1959 encouraging the building of independent colleges with separate...
683 Douglas, Adrian Capehart( Authored Entry )
...the Jordan, Overton Hygienic, and Chicago Bee Buildings, and at night they went to clubs where they...
684 Environmental Regulation, Betsy Mendelsohn( Authored Entry )
...government put thousands of people to work building the lakefront parks designed in the Burnham Plan...
685 Lumber, Theodore J. Karamanski( Authored Entry )
...largely focused on supplying the local market with building material. It was not unusual for farmers...
686 North Lawndale, Amanda Seligman( Authored Entry )
...The new western development's fireproof brick buildings attracted the people and businesses burned...
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...
688 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...
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...
690 Pullman, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...with the Hotel Florence, the largest public building in Pullman, with the hope of creating a museum...
691 Restaurants, Bruce Kraig( Authored Entry )
...construction of the First National Bank Building. Photographer: Unknown. Source: Chicago Historical...
692 Roseland, Janice L. Reiff( Authored Entry )
...shattered the local economy as banks and building associations collapsed, workers lost their jobs,...
693 Dutch, Jonathan J. Keyes( Authored Entry )
...service industries. South Siders entered the building trades as independent entrepreneurs, while...
694 Electronics, Emily Clark and Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...machines and devices at the Electricity Building on the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition...
695 Armenians, Robert Morrissey( Authored Entry )
...the suburbs, All Saints moved in 1980 to a new building in Glenview . Sts. Joachim and Anne Parish...
696 Landscape, Gerald A. Danzer( Authored Entry )
...deposits which became resources for the later building of the city. Huge chunks of ice were left...
697 Ecology and Conservation, Sarah S. Marcus( Interpretive Digital Essay (Photo Essay) )
...incorporated in 1925, grew slowly at first (by 1930, the town had fifty permanent residents). This...
698 Refining, Mark R. Wilson( Authored Entry )
...Initially, Standard of Indiana planned on building its new refinery at South Chicago , the terminus...
699 Settlement Houses, Louise Carroll Wade( Authored Entry )
...in the United States. Most were large buildings in crowded immigrant neighborhoods of industrial...
700 Taxation and Finance, Jon C. Teaford( Authored Entry )
...of property were less visible to assessors than buildings or land, they largely escaped taxation....

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