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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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Unionization, James R. Barrett(
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) ...ethnic minorities have often played key roles in building and transforming the movement. The city's...
...and first half of the twentieth century were building construction and maintenance companies,...
...elements, concentrated disproportionately in the Building Trades Council, and progressive, often...
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Housing Types, Joseph C. Bigott(
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) ...Historical Society. FIGURE 1 i3861 Ontario Flat Building, Sheridan Road near Irving Park Boulevard,...
...sleeping quarters for children. From 1830 to 1870, these buildings served as the first residences...
...common house forms. Few of these simple buildings remain within the city limits of Chicago....
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Century of Progress Exposition, Robert W. Rydell(
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) ...authorize construction of a U.S. government building and to issue invitations to foreign governments...
...gave architects responsibility for individual buildings, Century of Progress Exposition authorities,...
...agreed to give architects responsibilities for buildings in particular areas of the fair. Bennett,...
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Multicentered Chicago, Henry C. Binford(
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) ...itself. Migrants and Community Building, 1840–1930 Developmental ventures attracted migrants who...
...city's distinctiveness lies. Between 1850 and 1930, in a city sprawling as no city ever had, Chicago...
...of the most invidious attempts at community building in American history. Today's social geography...
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Hotels, Molly W. Berger(
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) ...and around the city. i2334 Edgewater Beach Hotel, 1930. Photographer: Curt Teich & Co. Source: Curt...
...Beaubien added a frame addition to his log building, establishing Chicago's first hotel. Chicago's...
...River from Ft. Dearborn near where the Wrigley Building stands today. It was an elegant three-story...
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Kane County, Craig L. Pfannkuche(
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) ...Aurora across the south end of the county in 1870 while the Milwaukee Road entered Elgin in 1873,...
...the river. The population reached 125,327 by 1930, and continued to grow slightly even during the...
...succession of courthouses. The third, a limestone building designed by Chicago architect John M. Van...
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Housing, Self-Built, Richard Harris(
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) ...between 20 and 30 miles outside Chicago, self-building was routine. In places such as Blue Island...
...it was more scattered. Since World War II , building codes have become more common, and the cost of...
...excess housing stock. Circumstances favored self-building in Chicago. For amateurs to attempt such a...
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Religious Geography, Lowell W. Livezey and Mark Bouman(
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) ...eventually rail lines that connected Chicago with its hinterland. Early Industrial Expansion, 1870–...
...tremendous population growth, from 300,000 in 1870 to 1.3 million in the early 1890s and more than 3...
...1930 After the fire, religious activity kept pace...
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Young Men's Christian Association, Paula R. Lupkin(
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) ...of relief to the poor. The city's first YMCA building, Farwell Hall (1867), named after benefactor...
...grew in size and scope, establishing branch buildings for railroad workers at junctions (beginning...
...an integral part of the YMCA's character-building mission, and an expanded physical and athletic...
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Homicide, Jeffrey S. Adler(
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) ...been related to or acquainted with one another. Chicago Homicide Rates per 100,000 residents, 1870–...
...2000 1870 2.6 1880 5.4 1890 7.0...
...1900 6.0 1910 9.2 1920 10.5 1930 14.6 1940 7.1 1950 7.9 1960 10.3 1970 24.0 1980 28.7 1990 32.9...
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