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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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Swedes, Anita Olson Gustafson(
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) ...decades, reaching 816 people in 1860 and 6,154 in 1870, it represented the largest single cluster of...
...Swedes to permanently emigrate between 1845 and 1930, attracted by available agricultural land and...
...1880; mass migration and dispersal from 1880 to 1930; maturation and decline between 1930 and 1960;...
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Hyde Park, Max Grinnell(
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) ...Commission, which was charged with monitoring building code violations and local crime. By the late...
...of hundreds of residential and commercial buildings in Hyde Park and Woodlawn and the development of...
...Park in the middle of 1893. After a significant building slump immediately following the exposition,...
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Subsidized Housing, Devereux Bowly, Jr.(
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) ...to Stateway Gardens, 1959, showing the kind of buildings razed to make way for high-rise housing....
...of Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) high-rise buildings. Yet before the creation of the CHA in 1937,...
...Side. This 1951 photograph shows several of the buildings and the well-maintained public spaces....
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Kitchenettes, Wendy Plotkin(
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) ...and amenities. Poet Gwendolyn Brooks eloquently evoked the ambiance of these buildings in “...
...kitchenette building,” published in her first, award-winning collection, A Street in Bronzeville (...
...were converted to more intensive use. Brick buildings with medium and large apartments rented on a...
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Dunning, Marilyn Elizabeth Perry(
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) ...a separate building for the insane asylum in 1870. The construction of two more buildings in the...
...in shambles and in the 1970s nearly half the buildings were razed. In that year, the Chicago-Read...
...College expanded with futuristic-style buildings and a learning resource center at Narragansett and...
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Condominiums and Cooperatives, Tracy Steffes(
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) ...of the city's wholesale furniture trade, the building was converted to residential condominiums and...
...have a share in a corporation that owns the building. Members are entitled to occupy one unit and...
...subsidies, encouraged a new wave of cooperative building in Chicago. A variety of cooperatives can...
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Printer's Row, Erik Gellman(
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) ...examples of the First Chicago School of Architecture , including the Duplicator Building (1886) and...
...the Pontiac Building (1891). In the late 1970s...
...to convert printing centers such as the Donohue Building into loft-style apartments, and Dearborn...
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Housing Reform, Gail Radford(
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) ...conditions that existed in Chicago, in hopes of building momentum for change. Settlement workers...
...there was little or no indoor plumbing in many buildings occupied by several families. Those parts...
...units in rowhouses and low-rise apartment buildings. These were the Jane Addams Houses, the Julia C....
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Art Institute of Chicago, Diane Dillon(
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) ...offered classes and staged regular receptions and exhibitions. In 1870 the organization moved...
...into its own building on Adams Street, adding a lecture series to...
...its program. After the building was destroyed in the fire of 1871 , the academy was plagued by...
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Hospitals, Paul A. Buelow(
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) ...for males in 1866. Its first substantial building was at Dearborn and Schiller. After two years,...
...at North Avenue and even built a two-story building there, but it perished in the fire of 1871 ....
...the medicine, and the city paid for the building rental. However, it soon became evident that the...
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