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Architecture: The Second Chicago School, Franz Schulze(
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) ...Principal among these is the Morton International Building of 1990, designed by Perkins & Will, with...
...a courthouse, an apartment tower, an office building, and a convention hall, lacked the symbolic...
...towers, while the resumption of commercial building waited until roughly a decade later. The two...
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Construction, Mark R. Wilson(
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) ...as a thoroughly constructed place, in which buildings, roads, and other human creations filled the...
...proceeded at an uneven pace. Among the city's building boom periods, during which structures were...
...the 1920s, the city contained roughly 400,000 buildings, most of them one- or two-family dwellings....
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Chicago Housing Authority, Harvey M. Choldin(
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) ...HUD introduced a radical change of policy, advocating demolition of failed high-rise buildings....
...Chicago demolished several high-rise buildings in 1996 and 1997, planning to redevelop those areas...
...all composed of low-rise (two-to-four-story) buildings. Three projects were opened in 1938: Jane...
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Architecture: The First Chicago School, David Garrard Lowe(
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) ...the rugged Romanesque of the South of France. In 1870 on Boston's Commonwealth Avenue, Richardson...
...a spectacularly non-Beaux-Arts Transportation Building for the fair, the style of “The White City”...
...of land in the Loop soared. Quickly, the low buildings constructed just after the fire were seen as...
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Built Environment of the Chicago Region, Robert Bruegmann(
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) ...are firmly embedded in local history and lore, as are buildings celebrated in architectural history...
...like the Monadnock, Rookery, Auditorium Building , Robie House, and Sears Tower. The particular kind...
...monuments are often palaces, governmental buildings, and great cathedrals, Chicago's monuments have...
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Historic Preservation, Barbara Sciacchitano(
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) ...undertaken directly is the restoration of the 1891–1895 Reliance Building at State and Washington....
...dominated facade has fostered the claim that the building is a precursor of modern architecture....
...The building reopened in 1999 as the European-style Hotel Burnham....
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Savings and Loans, Jeffrey A. Brune(
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) ...associations was steady between roughly 1880 and 1930, except for a portion of the 1890s. The 1890s...
...Chicago's first building and loan association (called savings and loans after the...
...1930s) was established in 1849. Building and loan associations originated as part of the cooperative...
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Apartments, Carroll William Westfall(
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) ...Center (1969). And among the commercial buildings and hotels built since 1967 atop the former...
...of Michigan Avenue and south of the Chicago River are numerous undistinguished apartment buildings....
...the exterior appearance of flats, apartment buildings, and residential hotels tended to be inspired...
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Places of Assembly, Paula R. Lupkin(
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) ...which hosted stock shows, trotting events, and, in 1870, the games of the Chicago White Stockings....
...Lane Technical High School's Football Field (1930) and the Civic Center at Hammond , Indiana (1938),...
...ethnic and religious groups. i3513 The Saloon Building was constructed in 1836 at the southeast...
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Merriam Center, Howard Rosen(
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) ...an anti-American movement to introduce zoning , building codes , public health laws, and other anti–...
...private property initiatives. In 1979, the building was renamed the Charles E. Merriam Center for...
...Beginning in 1938, the Public Administration Building, located on the campus of the University of...
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Skyscrapers, Charles Laurier(
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) ...Richard Chase, State Street Bridge, watercolor, 1930. Artist: Richard Chase. Source: The Newberry...
...as the Palmolive (1929) and Board of Trade (1930) in the distinctive telescoping setback Vertical...
...advanced the skyscraper form. The Home Insurance Building (1885–1931), utilizing a fireproofed metal...
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Real Estate, Pierre deVise(
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) ...residential units and built high-rise apartment buildings, condominiums , townhouses, and single-...
...include land assembly and subdivision platting, building, brokerage, property management, mortgage...
...attracted by the possibilities offered by canal building, the city's rapid growth after the Civil...
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World's Columbian Exposition, Robert W. Rydell(
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) ...to celebrate the Columbian quadricentennial began building in the early 1880s. By the close of the...
...design the fair's main, palatial exhibition buildings on grounds that landscape architect Frederick...
...and Daniel Chester French. The major buildings and their architects included Administration, by...
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Service Employees International Union (SEIU), D. Bradford Hunt(
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) ...elevator operators, and window washers in apartment buildings organized the Chicago Flat Janitor's...
...Union, the nation's first union of building employees and the forerunner of the Service Employees...
...often lived in dank basement apartments in buildings where they worked, better living conditions....
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Business of Chicago, Peter A. Coclanis(
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) ...never again experience a period resembling 1850–1930, and although the city faces countless economic...
...just under 30,000 in 1850 to about 300,000 by 1870 then to almost 1.1 million by 1890. By 1910 the...
...of economic expansion between about 1850 and 1930. Chicago's economic performance since that time...
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Maywood, IL, Jean Louise Guarino(
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) ...American population increased from 3 percent in 1930 to 82 percent in 2000. Whites and Hispanics...
...to “build up a neat, desirable suburb. ” In 1870, wide streets were laid out, 20,000 trees were...
...including the Chicago & North Western train (1870), electric street railways (1893), and Chicago's...
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Magnificent Mile, John W. Stamper(
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) ...Mile in the 1940s by developer Arthur Rubloff, it includes the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower,...
...London Guarantee Building,...
...Palmolive Building, and the John Hancock Center. The Magnificent Mile was proposed in Daniel...
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Railroad Stations, Max Grinnell(
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) ...floor, which was used as a watchtower. The building was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire of...
...was used until the early 1890s. While the building itself was a curious mix of architectural styles,...
...in Chicago. Other railroads soon followed suit, building many of their terminal stations along the...
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Robert Taylor Homes, Erik Gellman(
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) ...residents opposed to the demolition, the CHA had demolished half of the buildings by the year 2000....
...areas, the project comprised 28 16-story buildings mostly in U-shaped clusters of three, containing...
...city council refused to endorse potential building locations that would induce racially integrated...
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School Architecture, Arthur Zilversmit(
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) ...Fire of 1871 exacerbated the problem. One-third of the city's school buildings were destroyed...
...and the remaining buildings were used as public shelters....
...It took three years before any replacement buildings were constructed. An 1897 study emphasized the...
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