| 761 |
Pure Oil Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...to Chicago. From their offices in the Pure Oil building, company executives oversaw oil wells and...
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| 762 |
United States Gypsum Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...hydrous calcium sulfate) and turned it into building products. By the mid-1930s, the East Chicago...
|
| 763 |
Capsonic Group LLC, (
Business Dictionary
) ...manufacture injection-molded parts in a small building in Elgin, Illinois. The company grew quickly,...
|
| 764 |
Chicago Housing Authority Family Projects, (
Map
) ...the unusually high proportion of children in the buildings and inadequate maintenance by the agency....
...segregation through its public housing policy of building only in black areas, and the withdrawal of...
|
| 765 |
Burnett (Leo) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...into a new Chicago skyscraper, the Leo Burnett Building, located on Wacker Drive. The firm struggled...
|
| 766 |
Wrigley (Wm. Jr.) Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...went toward the construction of the Wrigley Building, the Michigan Avenue tower that was Chicago's...
|
| 767 |
Automatic Electric Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...Chicago-area residents at a complex of 17 buildings on the West Side. In 1955, when Theodore Gary &...
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| 768 |
Illinois Central Railroad (Corporate History), (
Business Dictionary
) ...as 10,000 workers at a time were engaged in building the railroad between 1851 and 1856. British and...
|
| 769 |
Sears, Roebuck & Co., (
Business Dictionary
) ...its headquarters into the world's tallest building (the Sears Tower), the company's fortunes were...
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| 770 |
Marshall Field & Company Store, c.1904-1913, Photographer: Barnes-Crosby(
Historical Source
) ...Company Store today is not one but several buildings. The two most familiar sections, along State...
...and Washington, were designed by D.H. Burnham and Company. The north building was completed in...
...1902, and the south building, also twelve stories, was erected five years later. The famous clocks,...
Date Created: c.1904-1913,
Date Depicted: c.1904-1913
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| 771 |
Highway Map of Cook County, 1970, Creator: Department of Public Works and Buildings(
Historical Source
) ...Creator: Department of Public Works and Buildings...
Date Created: 1970,
Date Depicted: 1970
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| 772 |
Michigan Avenue at the Chicago River, View South, 1925, Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry(
Historical Source
) ...the Tribune Tower (1925). The London Guarantee and Accident Building (1923; now 360 North Michigan...
...Avenue), and both the Wrigley Building (1921) and its Annex (1924) are completed, while Wacker...
...the area south of the river and east of the buildings that line the east side of a widened Michigan...
Date Created: 1925,
Date Depicted: 1925
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| 773 |
Portrait of World's Columbian Exposition Planners, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...from left to right): George B. Post, architect of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building; M. B....
...of Works; Henry Van Brunt, Electricity Building architect; Frank Millett, Director of Color; painter...
...Charles F. McKim, architect of the Agriculture Building; Ernest R. Graham, Assistant Director of...
Date Created: c.1893,
Date Depicted: c.1893
|
| 774 |
Chicago's Rapid Transit Lines, (
Map
) ...and near-suburban neighborhoods between 1892 and 1930. Similar construction and equipment standards...
|
| 775 |
Post Office and View Southwest from Board of Trade, 1951, Photographer: J. Sherwin Murphy(
Historical Source
) ...mammoth structure from the Board of Trade Building (LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard), looking...
...later the Eisenhower) Expressway has not yet been constructed through the base of the building....
Date Created: 1951,
Date Depicted: 1951
|
| 776 |
Noble-Seymour-Crippen House, 2004, Photographer: Betsy Keating(
Historical Source
) ...on Chicago's northwest side is the oldest extant building in Chicago. The Noble family built the...
...southern single-storied part of the structure in 1833 with long windows in the building's main room....
Date Created: 2004,
Date Depicted: 2004
|
| 777 |
Produce Exhibit, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...from Los Angeles County in the Horticultural Building combined several of the fair's most prominent...
...Philadelphia for display in the Pennsylvania Building (a replica of Independence Hall) and another...
...copy occupied the plaza in front of the Administration Building....
Date Created: 1893,
Date Depicted: 1893
|
| 778 |
View of the Wooded Isle of the World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, Photographer: Charles Dudley Arnold(
Historical Source
) ...to the formal splendor of the White City buildings of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893....
...Boone) or the Japanese exhibit, a cluster of buildings reflecting several centuries of Japanese...
...architectural styles. Additional buildings constructed for the Century of Progress Exposition were...
Date Created: 1893,
Date Depicted: 1893
|
| 779 |
Advertising Agency Cook, Coburn & Co., 1874, Artist: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...agency Cook, Coburn & Co. , in the Kendall Building, corner of Dearborn and Washington, 1874....
Date Created: 1874,
Date Depicted: 1874
|
| 780 |
Demolition of Old Post Office, 1966, Photographer: Gustav D. Frank(
Historical Source
) ...The 1966 demolition of the old Post Office, with the new Federal Building in the background....
Date Created: 1966,
Date Depicted: 1966
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