| 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
|
| 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...
|
| 811 |
Montauk Block, c.1880, Photographer: J. W. Taylor(
Historical Source
) ...and Dearborn. It was the first major commercial building developed by the architectural firm of...
Date Created: c.1880,
Date Depicted: c.1880
|
| 812 |
Hull House Complex, c.1904-1913, Photographer: Barnes-Crosby(
Historical Source
) ...dining room, an auditorium, a coffee house, a Women's Club, a Children's Building, and a gymnasium....
Date Created: c.1904-1913,
Date Depicted: c.1904-1913
|
| 813 |
Palmer Houses on Schiller Street, Photographer: Sigmund J. Osty(
Historical Source
) ...Clearly seen here are the expensive building materials employed on facades of these houses built...
Date Created: 1964,
Date Depicted: 1964
|
| 814 |
Fort Dearborn Addition to Chicago, 1839, Creator: Asa Bradley(
Historical Source
) ...and south to Twelfth Street, to the city as "Public Ground forever to remain vacant of Buildings."...
Date Created: 1839,
Date Depicted: 1839
|
| 815 |
Demolition of Dearborn Street Bridge and Bridge Tender House, 1959, Photographer: Robert Mark(
Historical Source
) ...view looks northwest across the Chicago River to the Central Cold Storage Building in November 1959....
Date Created: 1959,
Date Depicted: 1959
|
| 816 |
Kimball and Lawrence Avenues, 1929, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...Elevated line in 1907 further fueled the building boom, particularly around the station near the...
Date Created: 1929,
Date Depicted: 1929
|
| 817 |
Topsy Turvy Times Display, 1926, Photographer: Chicago Daily News(
Historical Source
) ...A window display at the Chicago Daily News building featured a model set for the Topsy Turvy Time...
Date Created: 1926,
Date Depicted: 1926
|
| 818 |
Plan of Chicago Promotional Campaign (Zoning), n.d., Creator: Chicago Plan Commission(
Historical Source
) ...slide explains street and alley setbacks and height limitations for tall buildings in the downtown....
Date Created: n.d.,
Date Depicted: n.d.
|
| 819 |
Lawrence and Kedzie Avenues (Northwest Corner), c.1935, Photographer: R. E. Jackson(
Historical Source
) ...on Chicago's North Side. The Thomasson Block building on the northwest corner housed a dance studio,...
Date Created: c.1935,
Date Depicted: c.1935
|
| 820 |
Chicago Defender Newsboy, 1942, Photographer: Jack Delano(
Historical Source
) ...Defender near the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Building at 3501 South Parkway (later Martin Luther...
Date Created: 1942,
Date Depicted: 1942
|