| 791 |
Chicago Plan Commission Subdivision Diagram, 1943, Creator: Chicago Plan Commission(
Historical Source
) ...published a booklet in June 1943 entitled "Building New Neighborhoods," which proposed redevelopment...
...suggested that residents "want more than just buildings crowded together on narrow lots, facing long...
Date Created: 1943,
Date Depicted: 1943
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| 792 |
Stateway Gardens, 1959, Photographer: Clarence W. Hines(
Historical Source
) ...to Stateway Gardens, 1959, showing the kind of buildings razed to make way for high-rise housing....
Date Created: 1959,
Date Depicted: 1959
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| 793 |
Outdoor Advertising for Sara Lee, 1954, Photographer: Hedrich-Blessing(
Historical Source
) ...its pastries on this giant billboard near the Palmolive Building at North Michigan and Walton....
Date Created: 1954,
Date Depicted: 1954
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| 794 |
Neighborhood Change: Chicago's Prairie Avenue, 1853-2003, (
Map
) ...others converted to trendy loft apartment buildings. The few surviving, much neglected mansions were...
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| 795 |
Chicago's Retail Centers in 2000, (
Map
) ...along major arterial streets. But it was the building of the metropolitan expressways in the 1950s-...
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| 796 |
National Historic Landmarks in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, (
Table
) ...Planetarium 1300 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago 1930 First planetarium in the Western Hemisphere...
...Building 141 West Jackson Boulevard Chicago 1928–1930 Commodity exchange Compton (Arthur H. ) House...
...Shedd Aquarium 1200 South Lake Shore Drive Chicago 1930 Surviving structure from Century of Progress...
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| 797 |
Burnham and Root, c.1890, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...John W. Root moved their firm to the Rookery Building, where, not long before Root's untimely death,...
Date Created: c.1890,
Date Depicted: c.1890
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| 798 |
Chicago Historical Society, c.1904-1913, Photographer: Barnes-Crosby(
Historical Source
) ...Society was founded in 1856, but its first building and virtually all of its early collections were...
...at Clark Street and North Avenue in 1932, this building went through a series of owners and uses,...
Date Created: c.1904-1913,
Date Depicted: c.1904-1913
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| 799 |
Aerial View of 79th and Western on Chicago's Southwest Side, 1926, Photographer: Kaufmann & Fabry Co.(
Historical Source
) ...checkerboard of streets in the foreground sprinkled with billboards and a few apartment buildings....
Date Created: 1926,
Date Depicted: 1926
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| 800 |
Graham Taylor at Chicago Commons Settlement House, 1924, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...over a flagpole dedication at the settlement house's Grand Avenue building (955 W. Grand) in 1924....
Date Created: 1924,
Date Depicted: 1924
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| 801 |
Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (South Branch of Chicago River), n.d., Creator: Chicago Plan Commission(
Historical Source
) ...the end of the 1920s. The depiction of the buildings in the center of the city is far more accurate...
...the end of the 1920s. The depiction of the buildings in the center of the city is far more accurate...
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
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| 802 |
American Furniture Mart, 1938, Photographer: Unknown(
Historical Source
) ...of the city's wholesale furniture trade, the building was converted to residential condominiums and...
Date Created: 1938,
Date Depicted: 1938
|
| 803 |
Fire on Goose Island, 1932, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...in a grain elevator on Goose Island in May 1930. Firefighters battled for more than five hours into...
Date Created: 1932,
Date Depicted: 1932
|
| 804 |
Fire on Goose Island, 1932, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...in a grain elevator on Goose Island in May 1930. Firefighters battled for more than five hours into...
Date Created: 1932,
Date Depicted: 1932
|
| 805 |
Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Ashland Avenue), 1916, Creator: Chicago Plan Commission(
Historical Source
) ...Sides. Among the proposals that were realized around 1930 were the widening of Ashland Avenue and...
Date Created: 1916,
Date Depicted: 1916
|
| 806 |
Western Electric Company, Creator: Curt Teich & Co.(
Historical Source
) ...as home life, upbringing, and diet. Between 1928 and 1930 alone, researchers interviewed some 21,000...
Date Created: 1951,
Date Depicted: 1951
|
| 807 |
Riverside Water Tower, 1972, Photographer: John McCarthy(
Historical Source
) ...tower designed by William LeBaron Jenney by 1870. The tower was rebuilt in the 1910s after a fire....
Date Created: 1972,
Date Depicted: 1972
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| 808 |
Municipal Powers, (
Historical Source
) ...Board of Public Works Notice, 1873. See also: Building Codes and Standards ; Streets and Highways...
...In the 1950s the city demolished hundreds of buildings in Grand Boulevard and Douglas to construct...
|
| 809 |
Fire Limits in Chicago in the 1870s, (
Map
) ...the new regulations, many replacement buildings across the city continued to be built of wood,...
|
| 810 |
School and Other Special Districts, (
Historical Source
) ...powers that municipalities have to prevent fires through building codes, fire limits, and zoning....
...See also: Annexation ; Building Codes and Standards ; Fire Limits ; Firefighting ; Zoning The...
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